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John Poindexter testified before an Iran-contra grand jury last week, a palpable reminder that special prosecutor Lawrence Walsh is still at work. After the arduous trials of Oliver North and Poindexter, Walsh's focus is on officials at other agencies who assisted the illegal contra supply operation or may have misled Congress. A prime target is Donald Gregg, an adviser to Vice President Bush who is now ambassador to South Korea. In 1985 and 1986 Gregg's friend Felix Rodriguez played a central role in running the contra arms flights from El Salvador. Gregg has testified that he knew...
Retired Admiral John Poindexter, Ronald Reagan's National Security Adviser, helped weave the Iran-contra web that ensnared him, yet there was little enthusiasm in Washington last week at his reckoning. He has legal bills of more than $3 million, has seen four years of his life wasted, and now has been sentenced to six months in jail. Chances are slim for a successful appeal of his convictions for deceiving Congress. A presidential pardon is even more remote. Poindexter is the seventh person found guilty in this sad drama and the only one so far to be ordered to jail...
...staff. "They should do a better job of teaching constitutional law at the Naval Academy," he said, noting that Army General Colin Powell successfully held the job after Poindexter and that retired Air Force General Brent Scowcroft has the position now. When the picture of the Iran-contra beast is finally drawn, in all probability it will not be as large or menacing as many thought. Yet the portrait will never be complete. These days in the muted luncheon- table conversations among both prosecutors and defense-team members, there is the acknowledgment that the one man who really...
...inspired by that living Marlboro Man, Ronald Reagan. The irony, of course, is that none of the dilemmas that confront the U.S. today were unforeseeable a decade ago. The education crisis in the cities, the research lag of domestic industry in international competition, the savings and loans bankruptcies, Iran-Contra, even the public deficit, all stem from neglect...
...that Moscow's ability to stem the flow of weapons to Central America depended on Soviet confidence that the military threat to Managua was lessening. In response, Aronson described as a concession the scaling back of U.S. maneuvers in Honduras. He cited the cutoff of humanitarian assistance to a contra commander who had independently attacked a Sandinista outpost in violation of the Bipartisan Accord's ban on offensive operations. He mentioned the closing of the contras' political office in Miami (although in fact the CIA had shut the office to save money). These efforts, said Aronson -- and the return...