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...shall be interested to read anything John Murphy writes about the issuing of pardons and the Iran-Contra affair. The connection between that subject, and Mr. Murphy's subject, is too obvious to need spelling...
...events that prompted the Irancontra scandal were illegal and undemocratic, said House Iran-contra Committee Counsel John Nields in a panel discussion last night...
Nields, who gained national exposure last summer for his role in questioning witnesses at the congressional Iran-contra hearings, told a Law School audience of more than 300 that the government must reform its policy on covert operations...
...Iran-contra affair, our government used official secrecy to enable it to carry out activities which were illegal and contrary to popular will," Nields said. "When confronted, the officials responded as though the questioner had missed some very obvious point that they were engaged in covert operations...
Mitchell's stock has risen over the past year. During the Iran-contra hearings, he appeared judicious and intellectually rigorous. Under the glare of television lights, his wooden speaking style vastly improved. A Senator since 1980, Mitchell, 54, has been around long enough to have developed respect for tradition but not so long that he is inured to Senate logjams. "Tradition," he says, "ought not to be a justification for unreasonable delay and unconscionable deadlock," a sentiment that resonates loudly with the bloc of eleven freshmen Senators pushing a "quality of life" package to reform arcane Senate rules. As chairman...