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...behaving as besieged politicians invariably do, said that "this whole thing boils down to a great irresponsibility on the part of the press." The accusation was false and desperate, and he has not tried to sustain it. Not the American press but an obscure Beirut magazine serving an Iranian faction broke the story of selling U.S. arms to Iran. (The Los Angeles Times was also onto it but feared that first publication might jeopardize the release of hostages.) As for Oliver North, his shadowy activities with the contras have been noted sporadically in the press, but neither Congress...
Kimche warned from the start that the Iranians sooner or later would ask for arms. Any faction that came to power would first have to develop a constituency in the Iranian military and Khomeini's Revolutionary Guards, and weapons were the only currency likely to sway them. At the same time, said Kimche, the Iranians thought they could prevail on Muslim fanatics in Lebanon to release American hostages. In fact, said Kimche, the Iranians had outlined to him three separate arrangements under which the hostages might be set free...
...arms and asked the U.S. to replenish Israel's stocks? Said McFarlane: "David, let's not kid ourselves. The matter isn't whether or not Israel is entitled to buy weapons from the U.S. The matter is a policy judgment that you are going to start supporting a faction in Iran with weapons and whether that's a sensible thing...
...great white hope to get behind. This year, for the first time in 70 years, Cook County's Democratic Central Committee, Mayor Daley's former stronghold, could not agree on a standard-bearer. So neither Byrne nor the mayor's archenemy, Alderman Edward Vrdolyak, leader of the anti-Washington faction on the city council, has the blessing of the machine...
...This faction of the party blindly follows a strict ideological line. It also contains a "populist" element that revels in bringing political hacks to the upper reaches of government. Time was when the Republican Party stood for integrity, even if it did not stand for a progressive or caring government, but now no longer...