Word: diversionism
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WASHINGTON--Congress' report on the Iran-Contra affair concludes there was no evidence President Reagan knew of the diversion of Iran arms sale money but states he failed his duty to "see that the laws are faithfully executed," a Senate committee source said yesterday.
Fatal Attraction was conceived by English Screenwriter-Director Dearden eight years ago as a 45-minute film called Diversion. In 1983 Producers Lansing and Stanley R. Jaffe hired Dearden to write a feature-length script based on his idea. (Later, Screenwriter-Director Nicholas Meyer rewrote some of the scenes involving...
He also complained that at least, by implication, the report accuses the administration of a "cover up" after initial disclosures that money from secret arms sales to Iran was slated for diversion to Nicaragua's Contra rebels.
Courter said the report also implies that President Reagan "had knowledge" of the diversion.
His appearance in the White House briefing room the next day was as dramatic as any since Meese and Reagan announced the Iran-contra arms-profit diversion. "Were the fate of Robert Bork the only thing at stake," said the judge, his voice breaking with emotion, "I would ask the...