Word: edwin
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...Cubans voted to accept a two-page, eight-point pact. When some 200 hard-liners still rejected the deal as inadequate, the majority needed "all of our effort and all of our force," as one detainee put it, to overcome their resistance. Approved in advance by Attorney General Edwin Meese, the agreement will apply to all the Marielitos under detention...
Senior Correspondents: Edwin M. Reingold, Frederick Ungeheuer...
...think we yielded to the demands of hostage-takers," U.S. Attorney General Edwin Meese III said in Washington. "There are a lot of reasons why this agreement comports with fair treatment in this case. That will become clear when we can talk in detail about the agreement and the review process next week...
Walsh has been presenting witnesses to a grand jury at a stepped-up pace of three times a week. One of the witnesses last week was Attorney General Edwin Meese, who is sharply criticized in the report for failing to seek advice before telling the President that he could legally sell arms to Iran without informing Congress. Meese testified that he relied on an opinion written in 1981 by former Attorney General William French Smith. But the report points out that Smith had advised that Congress would have to be notified once arms shipments were under way. Said the report...
Attorney General Edwin Meese III offered yesterday to impose a moratorium on the return of Cubans denied residency because of mental instability or past crimes. The offer to review each case individually had been relayed to both prisons in expectation that all hostages "will be safely released without delay," Meese said in Washington...