Word: dealing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Senate committee and special counsel investigators, however, his lawyer ordered both of them to stop talking to reporters." When Beckwith sat next to his former source at a dinner this spring, Poindexter chatted happily about his computer hobbies and his family but said hardly anything about a certain arms deal with a certain country in the Middle East...
North testified that he believed he saw the President's signature on a November 1985 "finding" retroactively authorizing the Hawks sale to win the release of U.S. hostages in Lebanon. Reagan has said he cannot recall when he approved the arms-for-hostages deal...
Chun put Roh in charge of finding a political solution to the crisis, an assignment that few took seriously in a system dominated by presidential authority. Kim Young Sam, for example, insisted on meeting with Chun and pointedly refused to deal with his designated successor. But Roh began holding talks with lower-ranking members of the opposition, as well as a wide range of other South Koreans. Roh says he did not convey his momentous conclusion to Chun before going public with it on Monday. Longtime observers of the South Korean political scene, however, find that contention hard to believe...
...long siege of unrest in South Korea could force the International Olympic Committee to schedule the Games elsewhere, damaging for years to come the image of a mature and stable nation that they hoped to project in the Olympic spotlight. Both men also realized that their options to deal with the protests were severely limited by Washington's insistence that military force not be used...
...also used as a conduit by Iranian Middleman Manucher Ghorbanifar in 1984, when the Iranian first proposed swapping money for the release of the American hostages in Lebanon. Shackley dutifully reported the offer to the State Department, where it languished. But from that initiative grew the arms-for-hostages deal that North...