Word: documentation
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...testify, the findings were far from complete. Said New Jersey Democrat Bill Bradley: "It's like going to a movie without the stars. You only get to see the extras." Finally, the committee voted, 7 to 6, against releasing the report. Instead, the panel decided to work on the document and pass it on to the Senate select committee investigating the scandal...
Another North memo, prepared for the President last January, also outlined the rationale for beginning direct U.S. arms shipments to Iran. Reagan evidently did not read the three-page document. Instead, Poindexter apparently gave him an oral briefing and then signed Reagan's initials at the bottom. The White House was at pains to point to the paper's justification of weapons deliveries as a way of fostering ties to Iran's moderate elements. Yet the Senate report says that Casey had devised this line of reasoning to cloud the true arms-for-hostages nature of the arrangement. The document...
...contra threat. The 202-article charter champions many of those suspended liberties, including freedom of speech and assembly and the right to strike. Immediately after the signing of the constitution, Ortega reimposed the state of emergency. Erick Ramirez, leader of the opposition Social Christian Party, has dismissed the document as a "tool of propaganda for foreign consumption...
Aquino may have more success with the constitution. The 118-page charter, written by an Aquino-appointed committee, calls for a referendum on renewing the leases of U.S. military bases, a cutback in presidential powers and the establishment of a two-chamber congress. Aquino says the document is "worthy of the great collective act that made it possible: the rising of the Filipino people to vindicate their voice...
When Filipinos go to the polls on Feb. 2 to vote on a proposed new constitution, the ballot will in effect be a referendum on Aquino. She is putting her immense personal prestige on the line by canvassing the country on behalf of a document that has galvanized her opponents. Meanwhile, negotiations between the government and the National Democratic Front, the political arm of the Communist insurgency, are stalemated...