Word: elliott
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...engaging It's Garry Shandling's Show on Showtime, an unexpected hit that has just won a renewal for three more years. Meanwhile, the Cinemax Comedy Experiment has served as the umbrella for an array of inventive comedy specials. The best so far this year: Chris Elliott's Action Family, which skewered the cliches of two TV genres, private-eye dramas and sitcoms, by yoking them into one ludicrously mismatched half hour...
...democratic reforms within the rebel movement, never had much power, but his presence was a symbol that the contras were more than just a collection of embittered former supporters of deposed Dictator Anastasio Somoza Debayle. Cruz's absence creates greater doubts about the caliber of the contra leadership. Elliott Abrams, the State Department's point man on the contra issue, disagrees. "The reform process," he argues, "will go on with or without Arturo Cruz...
...State Department, officials are privately predicting that Elliott Abrams, the intensely committed Assistant Secretary of State who has served as the point man in the contra crusade, will be gone by summer. The report shows that his involvement in Ollie North's private contra-supply network was far greater than he had previously testified. Says one source close to Abrams: "There is no way Elliott can survive this." The contra-aid program will have similar problems surviving, even though it makes little sense to tie its fate to the Iranian scandal...
...assets, which he listed as including six aircraft, warehouses, ships, boats, houses and a 6,520-ft. airstrip in northern Costa Rica. The price tag: $4.5 million. North even seems to have engaged in near blackmail when officials in Costa Rica threatened to close this airstrip. After consulting with Elliott Abrams, the top State Department official on contra policy, and Lewis Tambs, U.S. Ambassador to Costa Rica, North reported that he called Costa Rican President Oscar Arias Sanchez to threaten that the U.S. would cut off $80 million in aid if this happened. Costa Rica closed the field anyway...
...commands a lot of loyalty. His guys hold all the guns. If we were to drop him, there would be terrible disruption and dissension." Still, observers believe that the presence of Cruz, a former Sandinista Ambassador to Washington, remains essential to making the contras palatable. Assistant Secretary of State Elliott Abrams, the Administration's chief architect of Central American policy, said of Cruz, "Nobody is irreplaceable. But he comes as close as you can get." Last week the State Department tried to salvage the movement by working to expand the UNO coalition and subsequently reduce Calero's dominance...