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Shultz had opposed the Iranian purchases in private conversations with President Reagan. He told the House Foreign Affairs Committee on December 8 he was "shocked" to learn Kelly had bypassed department channels and instead dealt through a Central Intelligence Agency back channel...
Experts in foreign relations said revelations about the Iranian connection dealt a crushing blow to the credibility of U.S. foreign policy toward the Middle East, Europe, Central America and the Soviet Union...
...project, the screenplay is reviewed by officials at the Department of Defense and by each of the services involved. The Pentagon ends up rejecting many projects that come its way on the grounds that they distort military life and situations. An Officer and a Gentleman, which like Top Gun dealt with naval aviation training, was turned down because of its rough language, steamy sex and, to the military mind, inaccurate view of boot camp. The Pentagon said no to WarGames because the military contends that a teenage computer hacker could never crack the U.S. strategic defense system. Even Rambo...
...data show that we haven't been barking up the wrong trees in a number of the areas that are being dealt with," she said. "But I don't think this is the last word on any of these things. We've just moved a step forward and now are going to be able to ask a few more sophisticated questions...
Indeed, Robert McFarlane, Poindexter's predecessor and Reagan's envoy at secret talks earlier this year in Teheran, said yesterday those arms shipments had been necessary because the "moderates" with whom he dealt "are going to be quite vulnerable...