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Senior Correspondents: Edwin M. Reingold, Frederick Ungeheuer...
After eleven weeks of testimony from 28 witnesses, the congressional committees probing the Iran-contra affair finally heard from the investigator who brought the scandal to light and the official who presided over the White House staff while the ill-conceived policy was unfolding. Neither Attorney General Edwin Meese nor former Chief of Staff Don Regan did much to shake the devastating portrait that has emerged from the hearings of a secret foreign- policy apparatus run amuck and key officials more concerned with pulling together a convincing alibi than getting to the bottom of the tangled tale...
...Afghanistan -- the usual guided tour of In spots and hot spots, with a politically savvy cast of , adversaries. An honorable KGB boss and a duplicitous KGB agent. Afghan freedom fighters who push opium on the side. A renegade arms dealer who may remind you of General Secord's friend Edwin Wilson. And 007 in the middle, juggling global juggernauts like Ollie North, but with less piety and more smarts...
...When he presumably learned about the diversion from the hasty fact-finding probe of Attorney General Edwin Meese, he commendably made the startling fact public. Yet he made no effort to find out how this had happened from either Poindexter or North, who knew the details. One possibility was that the President already knew more than he cared to reveal...
Such talk prompted speculation on Capitol Hill that pardons may have been considered in November as part of a deal with Poindexter and North. Congressman Louis Stokes asked Poindexter whether the question had been discussed at a Dec. 16 White House meeting between the President, Edwin Meese and the late CIA director William Casey. "I don't know anything about that," Poindexter replied tersely...