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...Bowen demonstrated in his first Ethics story (on AIDS, Feb. 2) and in his discussion of the legal views of Attorney General Edwin Meese III (ESSAY, Aug. 11, 1986), he does not shrink from judgment. "I'm no holier-than-thou type," says Bowen, "but it has been my experience that the best guys I've known in life have had profound ethical concerns." At the top of his list of ethically minded people is his late mother, the prominent biographer Catherine Drinker Bowen, whose books chronicled the lives of Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., President John Adams...
...public mind not by any connection between their diverse dubious deeds but by the fact that each in his or her own way has somehow seemed to betray the public trust: Oliver North, Robert McFarlane, Michael Deaver, Ivan Boesky, Gary Hart, Clayton Lonetree, Jim and Tammy Bakker, maybe Edwin Meese, perhaps even the President. Their transgressions -- some grievous and some petty -- run the gamut of human failings, from weakness of will to moral laxity to hypocrisy to uncontrolled avarice. But taken collectively, the heedless lack of restraint in their behavior reveals something disturbing about the national character. America, which took...
...self- taught computer analyst for the Marshals Service, Scorecard is one of a new breed of investigative tools that promise to revolutionize the way authorities hunt down fugitives from justice. U.S. officials say Wutrich and Scorecard are the heroes of an international manhunt, disclosed last week by Attorney General Edwin Meese, that has resulted in the arrest of 210 people, including 166 top-priority narcotics traffickers...
...scheme was known as Operation Pisces, and Attorney General Edwin Meese last week hailed it as "remarkable." So it was: the largest and most successful undercover ploy in federal drug law enforcement history. Acting simultaneously in Los Angeles, Miami and New York City, U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration officials reeled in some 80 smugglers, dealers and middlemen, and issued arrest warrants for about 35 more. An additional 351 people had already been nabbed on the basis of tips from the three-year operation. About $49 million in cash and property, along with 19,000 lbs. of cocaine with a street value...
...Attorney General Edwin Meese made public the Iran- contra connection and North was fired from the National Security Council staff, North and Secord met in a Virginia hotel room that Secord had rented to talk things over. North received two phone calls: the first from Vice President George Bush, the second from the President who had just dismissed him. (North, a Marine lieutenant colonel, stood at attention to receive the call from Reagan.) So far as Secord could tell, both expressed regret and thanked North for his efforts...