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Special prosecutor Lawrence Walsh submitted the final report on his seven- year, $40 million inquiry into the Iran-contra affair. While Walsh's report states that neither President Reagan nor Vice President Bush committed crimes, it does say that Reagan "set the stage for criminal activities by others" and that Bush was fully involved in the affair despite his public comments to the contrary...
Walsh gets last word; his Iran-contra report will be made public
...back to the ideals I held dear: humility, selflessness, obedience. I blamed the hostage crisis on Carter; I nearly wept when he lit the Statue of Liberty's torch on the Fourth of July; I called the news media a bunch of bleeding hearts for belaboring that overblown Iran-Contra thing. When other kids wore black armbands on their Underroos after Carter lost the presidency to Reagan, I danced in mine...
...Kennedy's assassination] is important not only for its own sake, but [because] it shows the kind of government we are still living under," said Susan E. McLucas, who became interested in the Kennedy assassination after working with a citizens' group in Washington D.C., on the Iran-Contra affair...
...Miss.) said in an interview with The New York Times, "the vote will not be based on ethical or legal questions, but on the politics of the moment. Do you want to be perceived as having voted for a cover-up?" With the specters of Watergate and Iran-Contra still haunting government and another election year just around the corner, few senators want to answer...