Word: displays
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Many members of Congress argue that pardoning North and Poindexter would display contempt for the justice system and for the idea that Government officials are accountable to the law. Said Stokes: "The President would make a very serious mistake, and I think it would be resented by the American public." But for the President, perhaps the most persuasive argument against a pardon is that it would compromise the presumption of innocence to which North and Poindexter are entitled under the law. "The best thing that could happen now from Ronald Reagan's standpoint would be indictment and acquittal," says...
...Lieut. Colonel Oliver North spun out his story with a dazzling display of charm, guile and unbridled self-righteousness during his long-awaited appearance in the Iran-contra hearings, he portrayed himself as a dutiful junior officer, ever willing to "salute smartly and charge up the hill" at any order from his superiors. Yet the bemedaled Marine refused to fall on his sword and take full blame for the scandal that has wounded his Commander in Chief. Although he confessed candidly -- and defiantly -- to blatant lies and deceptions, North also threw what even he called "Ollie North's dragnet" over...
That briefcase was on display last week when Chastain told the U.S. House Subcommittee on Asian and Pacific Affairs how he had posed as an arms dealer to trap Marcos into revealing his plans. He then turned the tapes over to the Philippine government, which informed the U.S. Government of the plot...
...refueling, was not at Le Bourget. Rutan and Yeager could not raise enough money to bring the aircraft along. A plan to fly Voyager to Paris on an Air Force cargo plane was rejected by a bureaucrat labeled a "pinhead" by an industry journal. What the U.S. chose to display instead was the B-1B bomber, a dark and menacing $285 million war machine. The B-1B, designed to travel to its target through hostile combat environments, demonstrated only one flaw: its engines refused to start when the aircraft was scheduled to leave Le Bourget. A special power unit...
Religion. Powell took a highly eclectic approach: he voted to allow Pawtucket, R.I., to place a creche in a municipal Christmas display, but also to strike down an Alabama law authorizing a moment of silence in public schools. Justices Rehnquist, Byron White and Antonin Scalia want to go further than Powell ever would in approving state practices that foster religion, and O'Connor would like to rewrite the court's standard test for deciding when such practices are constitutional. Powell's successor might make a majority...