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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...
...vacuum has been filled by Attorney General Edwin Meese, whose advice has nearly always led to disaster. Even David Broder, the Washington Post's normally temperate columnist, last week joined the growing cry for Meese's firing. The likelihood that Reagan will heed that recommendation is virtually nil; Meese is the last of his California cronies left in the Administration. Still, the two Bakers, Secretary of State George Shultz and Defense Secretary- designate Frank Carlucci are all people of sound judgment to whom the President should listen...
...high noon on Sunday in Edwin Meese's small, elegant office on the fifth floor of the Justice Department. In armchairs that faced one another sat Meese, Howard Baker and a clutch of lieutenants. In their midst was Anthony Kennedy, a potential Supreme Court nominee, who had been flown to Washington on an Air Force jet from Sacramento the evening before, carrying only a small overnight bag. The interrogation ran through 21 pages of single-spaced questions. Was your wife pregnant when you married? No. Have you ever visited a massage parlor? No. Have you seen other women since...
Senior Correspondents: Edwin M. Reingold, Frederick Ungeheuer...
Although earlier drafts of the majority report accused the Administration of a cover-up, that term is not included in the final version. However, the report details the bumbled investigation by Attorney General Edwin Meese, which allowed North and his secretary, Fawn Hall, time to destroy documents. It criticizes efforts by North, Robert McFarlane and others to falsify testimony that former CIA Director William Casey was to deliver to Congress. Says a staffer: "Even if it doesn't say 'cover-up,' the majority report makes clear that people were trying to keep other people from knowing what had been going...