Word: diversionism
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AND it also appears that Reagan was not as befuddled a president as his advisers and the media had us believe. From the time the Iran-Contra scandal broke in the fall of 1986 until Reagan left office in January. the Reagan Administration insisted that the president had no knowledge...
But since 1941, most of the Mono Basin's mountain water has been disappearing from here and from three other streams down a tube that leads about 225 miles south to Los Angeles. The result, as bumper stickers, outraged postcards to the Governor, and sober scientific studies have all amply...
As persuasive as the arguments in favor of a change may be, to some they represent a diversion from more important matters. "This undue concern with our name is a reflection of our powerlessness," says Cornell University professor Henry Louis Gates Jr., a leading literary theorist. "I don't really...
As in the case of the Iran-Contra affair, the fictitious Mastergate scandal takes on the air of the surreal. Like Contragate, Mastergate is based on the diversion of government funds. Through the wiles of CIA Director Wiley Slaughter (Alvin Epstein)--a thinly disguised lampoon of former real-life CIA...
Last week the public learned that its appetite for a complete explanation of the affair -- and a judgment of who was at fault -- will probably go forever unfulfilled. After spending nearly 25 months and an estimated $13 million investigating North's role in the illegal diversion of profits from a...