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...former NSC adviser says he had ordered his staff not to solicit funds. "I never heard those instructions," North testified, adding that McFarlane was the one who asked him to keep the contras going after the Boland cutoff...
...some reason, he has always favored culs-de-sac, so he hopes you live on one, someday, a neat little cutoff that surprises the city's motions with a pause. Trees on the street; he would like that for you, and low modest houses so the sky is evident. He hopes that your mornings are absolutely still except for birds, but that the evenings bulge with human outcry, families calling to one another in the darkening hours. He wishes you small particulars: a letter received indicating sudden affection, an exchange of wit with a total stranger, a moment of helpless...
During the '60s, the Wall was meant to stop Easterners from heading West, of course, but it also severed the western half of the city from Berlin's rich historical center and deprived West Berliners of access to the East's many parks. What is more, the cutoff of laborers from East Berlin prompted West Berlin to undertake a crash program of apartment building to attract new workers from West Germany and abroad. The main result was slapdash, tired- looking Alphaville architecture, Interbau without airs...
Filling out the picture will be some lesser-known field agents who helped create the private network that kept the contras fighting despite the official cutoff. Among them: Robert Owen, who as North's roving envoy in Central America allegedly arranged weapons shipments, and Contra Leader Adolfo Calero, who will be asked about what help the rebels actually received...
...contras in the jungle watch Congress almost as closely as they do the . Sandinista forces. The rebels are aware that congressional ire over U.S. arms sales to Iran, and the subsequent use of proceeds to supply the contras, could mean another aid cutoff. The guerrillas claim to be undaunted, but the claim does not ring altogether true. Declared Chicle: "If Congress stops our aid, fine. But they can't stop our will to fight. It's stupid to say that that wouldn't hurt us profoundly. However, we will keep fighting...