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Hasenfus was captured October 6, the day after his plane was shot down while ferrying weapons and supplies to the U.S.-backed Contra rebels in Nicaragua...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hasenfus Home After Nicaraguan Pardon | 12/19/1986 | See Source »

...streets because of educational reforms instituted by the newly installed conservative government. This proves a well-known rule. No, not that two Frenchmen will have three opinions, but rather that Europeans take their politics much more seriously than Americans do. Nothing bears this rule out more than the Iran-Contra fiasco that is washing up on our shores...

Author: By Noam S. Cohen, | Title: Feeling Good, Doing Bad | 12/18/1986 | See Source »

Meese has repeatedly said he had no hint of the Contra connection to the Iran deal until his own inquiry conducted the weekend of November...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Meese Denies Receiving CIA Contra Memo | 12/18/1986 | See Source »

Meese arranged to testify this afternoon before the Senate Intelligence Committee on the Iran-Contra controversy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Meese Denies Receiving CIA Contra Memo | 12/18/1986 | See Source »

According to the fund's records, the largest consultant fee--$50,000--went to Miner and Fraser. Another $10,000 went to Daniel Conrad, a fundraiser for the National Endowment for the Preservation of Liberty, a conservative group that North reportedly assisted in preparing pro-Contra television commercials...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: North Involved With Controversial 85 Fundraiser | 12/17/1986 | See Source »

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