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...Walsh in the first months of his Iran-contra investigation, before he took a backup appointment from the Justice Department. The ruling also frees Prosecutor James McKay, who earlier obtained a conviction of former White House Aide Lyn Nofziger, to release the report on his investigation into Attorney General Edwin Meese...
Although the Reagan Administration professed enthusiasm for the Teamsters suit, the announcement caused some embarrassment. The Teamsters endorsed the Reagan-Bush ticket in both 1980 and 1984. Presser was named an adviser to the 1980 Reagan transition team, headed by none other than Edwin Meese III. "Had this information been available at the time," Attorney General Meese said last week, "President Reagan . . . would obviously not have accepted that kind of support." But evidence of the Teamsters' pact with the devil was known well before 1980. As the report of the President's Commission on Organized Crime points out, "Jackie Presser...
...long, it's been good to know ya. Attorney General Edwin Meese will be gone before the Democratic Convention, Bush sources hope. He'll resign just as soon as he has had a chance to mount a face-saving p.r. offensive against the impending report from Independent Counsel James McKay...
...announced resignation of Attorney General Edwin Meese III Tuesday was seen by many people as an attempt by Meese and the Reagan Administration to minimize the so-called "sleaze factor" before it damages the presidential aspirations of Vice President George Bush...
...nations engage in ventures ranging from joint development of a $6.5 billion jet fighter known as the FSX to intelligence gathering on North Korean radicals in advance of the Seoul Olympics. "There will continue to be a tremendous mutual dependence between the U.S. and Japan," says Historian Edwin Reischauer, author of The Japanese Today and former U.S. Ambassador to Tokyo. "If they turned uncooperative it would be a disaster for us, but it would also be a disaster for them...