Word: contras
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...there was any gloating at The New York Times, Washington Post or Los Angeles Times over executive editor Jerry Ceppos' abject pullback from the San Jose Mercury News's series about the crack-contra link, there shouldn't have been. Gary Webb's stories were seriously flawed, but so were the stories those papers produced in an attempt to debunk him. All three, to a greater or lesser extent, committed the same journalistic sin for which they indicted the Mercury News: playing up evidence that Webb was wrong while burying proof to the contrary...
Take the highly selective coverage of a Senate hearing last October at which Jack Blum--former chief investigator for Senator John Kerry's two-year-long Senate probe of charges that the CIA had been in cahoots with contra drug smugglers--appeared. Blum testified that while the Kerry committee found no evidence that the CIA had targeted black Americans for drug sales, its investigation had been stonewalled by William Weld, then an Assistant Attorney General and now the Governor of Massachusetts. Coming at the height of the furor over Webb's allegations--and in the middle of a tight Senate...
BILL BAKER (R) District 10 (Eastern Contra Costa and Alameda counties...
...Contra Costa newspaper columnist, Baker made a reputation as "the angry taxpayer" and in Congress has made government downsizing a priority. With a near perfect conservative voting record and effective lobbying for local projects like the bart-San Francisco Airport extension, he solidly won two back-to-back victories in the most Republican Bay Area district...
...private behavior, for example Dole's sudden divorce from his first wife or allegations about Clinton and Gennifer Flowers. In fact, under the current rule of confining scrutiny to "public character," only Clinton's is in play (Craig Livingstone, Whitewater pardons, Indonesian money), not Dole's (Nixon and Iran-contra pardons, Dwayne Andreas' money, former financial adviser David Owen's jail term...