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Meanwhile, in far-off Cleveland, a quarterback for the ages was coming of age. Denver's John Elway, 26, a Stanford baseball and football phenom prized above Miami's Dan Marino in the great quarterback draft of 1983, gathered the Broncos in their own end zone with less than six minutes and more than 98 yds. to go. Just to tie, they needed a touchdown. "We've got these guys right where we want them," drawled Denver Guard Keith Bishop, a Texan, but everyone else was looking at Elway. "We have a long...
...Tuesday more than a hundred staff members gathered in a lobby of The New Yorker's offices to protest the move. After several splenetic speeches against Newhouse, they decided to draft a letter to Gottlieb asking him to step aside in favor of an in-house candidate. The three-paragraph message was signed by 154 people, including Roger Angell, Ann Beattie, Calvin Trillin and even the hermitic J.D. Salinger, who has not published a short story in The New Yorker since 1965. "It is our strange and powerfully held conviction," read the letter, "that only an editor who has been...
These were some of the disclosures in a Senate Intelligence Committee draft report based on the four weeks of hearings the panel held before Christmas. Although committee members voted last week against releasing their findings, an earlier version, like so many other important documents in Washington, was leaked before the week was out. Despite the report's damning implication that the President either did not know or did not comprehend fully what his staff was up to, the White House was eager for the document's release. The primary reason: the preliminary investigation found no evidence linking the President...
Knowing that the report would exonerate Reagan of complicity in the contra connection, the Administration had been pressuring the Intelligence Committee to make its findings public. Taking their cue from the White House, many Republican lawmakers were demanding immediate disclosure. Democratic Senators contended that the current draft was still incomplete and full of inconsistencies. Moreover, 13 Administration officials -- including members of the CIA and the NSC -- had been allowed to inspect the text, deleting portions they deemed diplomatically sensitive or dangerous to national security. And since neither North nor Poindexter would testify, the findings were far from complete. Said...
...There are in fact contradictions and gaps in the draft version that was leaked. But the report does clarify some of the details of how the Iran- contra affair evolved. In December 1985, for instance, several of Reagan's top aides argued against sending U.S. arms to Iran. But, the report says, North may have won Reagan over with a memo warning, "If the program is terminated, then the hostages will...