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...CONTRAS are stepping up the killing in Nicaragua, and they are doing it with our tax money. Of course, this is nothing new. They have been doing exactly that for five years now, and they are no closer to beating the Sandinistas than they were in 1982. Our frustrated contra policy has thus far only created more corpses, not better policy options...
...Iran-contra affair an anomaly, a single departure from the Administration's high standards? Take a look at Reagan's style in dealing with domestic affairs; the same type of deviousness which led to trading arms for hostages and then calling the deal something else characterizes even the Administration's most innocuous policies...
...where so much uncontroversial good could have been done, a scrupulous Chief Executive would have restrained his base political urges. Further, such relatively routine cases of deceit and hypocrisy--which do a nice job of warping leaders' values--serve to bridge the gap between simple political manipulation and Iran-contra affairs...
When Lieut. Colonel Oliver North sat down at his computer terminal to compose memos to his superiors at the National Security Council, he made a common assumption. He thought his electronic missives -- relaying confidential details of the ill-fated Iran-contra deal -- were more secure than messages sent by post or by telephone. The magnitude of that error now confronts him in bookstore windows around the country. For not only have hundreds of those potentially incriminating messages been recovered by federal investigators but they also are available to all, in published copies of the Tower commission report...
...decision gives a big boost to affirmative action, even without evidence of past discrimination. -- Two Marine guards are accused of letting Soviet agents roam through the U. S. embassy in Moscow. -- Poindexter is likely to testify that he told Reagan in general terms about the contra fund diversion. -- Carmel- by- the- Sea is lean and clean under Mayor Clint Eastwood...