Word: contras
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...White House is concerned, [Nixon's] rehabilitation is complete--there's tremendous respect for him around here." Reagan is known to consult often with Nixon about certain policies, such as the bombing of Libya, and even called for advice on how to handle the Iran-Contra scandal...
...Iran-contra scandal and fears of economic decline have prompted a change, and the Congress has joined the fight for free exchange of information, observers...
...other interests are joining the educators' call for a less restrictive information policy. To Congress, the Iran-contra affair revealed the dangers of excessive government secrecy. Businessmen concerned about America's economic "competitiveness" have also mounted an attack on the Administration's controls. They argue that the failure to share scientific information has weakened the United States' ability to match foreign business innovations and will lead to economic stagnation...
Every Democratic candidate has come out in favor of more open government and fewer restriction on scientific information, in part as a result of the Iran-contra scandal. On the Republican side, however, Vice President George Bush has not separated himself from the Reagan Administration's policies. Nonetheless, analysts believe Bush may have to change his stance...
...terrorism that was threatening our nation." The two were high-ranking FBI officials convicted of authorizing illegal break-ins during 1972-73 investigations of the Weather Underground. The response by the prosecutor in that case, John Nields Jr., who served as chief House counsel in the Iran-contra hearings last summer, is just as apt today. Nields argued that pardons in such cases "send out a terrible signal -- that the Government can violate the Constitution and then forgive itself...