Word: earl
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Black Bottom, August Wilson launched a cycle about black life in each decade of the century. His new work, mounted by the Yale Repertory Theater in New Haven, Chicago and Seattle and scheduled for Broadway in March, depicts a baseball player turned sanitation worker in the 1950s. James Earl Jones has his most exciting role since The Great White Hope...
...Secord, a retired Air Force general who was deeply involved in funneling aid to the contras and who, it turned out last week, was also involved in arms and hostage negotiations; Robert Dutton, an associate of Secord's; Robert Owen, allegedly a liaison between North and the contras. Robert Earl, a North deputy, came up with a novel reason for delaying testimony to the Senate Intelligence Committee. He pleaded his Sixth Amendment right to be represented by counsel, who, he said, would need a long time to get a security clearance...
...refusal to testify by a third White House national security aide, Marine Lt. Col. Robert Earl, that prompted Sen. David Durenberger, R-Minn., Intelligence Committee chairman, to charge that the three military men, praised as "national heroes" by their supporters, weren't heroes in his book...
...Before Earl, former national security adviser, Vice Adm. John M. Poindexter, and Marine Lt. Col. Oliver L. North, had cited their Fifth Amendment rights in refusing to testify. Poindexter resigned on Nov. 25, and North, a NSC staff deputy, was fired the same...
Durenberger said Earl claimed that his one-week notice to testify was insufficient, but "I don't buy it. ... We've had plenty of witnesses who've had less than a full week to prepare...