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...action was classic Bennett. The lawyer likes to combine shrewd use of the media with concern for his client's state of mind. Says Weinberger, who was indicted (and pardoned) for his role in the Iran-contra affair: "Bob is crucial because of the terrorist approach of prosecutors. They hope the person they target will fold up, blow away and plead guilty...
...Like Wile E. Coyote waiting for a 20-ton Acme anvil to fall on his head," reads the preamble, "our generation labors in the expanding shadow of a monstrous national debt." Baby boomers are given a political threat: "We grew up amidst the betrayals of Vietnam, Watergate, and Iran-contra. We are witness to the highest divorce rate ever . . . Let the new generation in power know we are not only watching, but participating...
FOLLOWING THE SERIES OF SURPRISE PARDONS BY George Bush on Christmas Eve, Iran-contra prosecutor Lawrence Walsh has found himself largely reduced to shouting -- loudly. In his latest report to Congress, Walsh continued to beat the drums. He directly accused the former President of committing a "grave disservice" to the country by shielding former Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger from prosecution, and he suggested that Bush may have done so to avoid answering, as a defense witness, "searching questions" about his own role in the scandal...
...appointing a new Attorney General, the department remains the only Cabinet-level agency without an appointed leader. The person who is eventually chosen as the new chief of federal law enforcement will be handed a full plate of problems that extend back a decade. Among them: the continuing Iran-contra probe, the scandal involving the Bank of Credit & Commerce International, and lingering questions over Justice's role in the investigation of money and arms transfers to Iraq. Beyond that, the Attorney General will be called upon to rein in many of the country's 94 U.S. Attorneys, whose offices have...
...PHALANX OF CAMERAS COVered the back wall. Gray-suited CBS executives lined the side aisles. Reporters crowded into the room as if the Iran-contra hearings were on. But for David Letterman, the press conference at CBS's New York City headquarters to announce that he was jumping from NBC to CBS was just another late-night monologue...