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After starting Phase 1 with a potential bomb thrower, Secord, the committee expects to end it with the scandal's bombshell: North's secretary, Fawn Hall. Charges of a possible obstruction of justice could hinge in part on how she describes the documents she shredded, altered or spirited off to North after Attorney General Edwin Meese carelessly interviewed him about the Iran-contra diversion but failed to call in the FBI or lock up North's files...
...could say Fawn Hall wasn't loyal. When her boss, Lieut. Colonel Oliver North, asked her to work weekends at the National Security Council, she readily agreed. Hall, 27, a strikingly pretty blond with blue-green eyes, often turned down modeling jobs because she was afraid they might interfere with her secretarial duties. Hall even rejected the chance to take a screen test because she was just too busy. Said a friend: "She was a good employee, and a good employee does what her employer wants...
...limits. She has agreed to tell Iranscam Independent Counsel Lawrence Walsh about her NSC deeds in return for immunity from prosecution. When the deal became known last week, Hall suddenly found herself thrust into the media glare. Photographers followed her car, a red Fiero with license plates that read FAWN. David Letterman joked about her, the New York Post dubbed her "Iranscam Beauty," and pictures from her modeling days flashed across the network news shows. Said Hall: "One of my friends told me Andy Warhol said everyone will be famous for 15 minutes. I kind of feel like that right...
...returned to the Pentagon in January, perhaps feeling that never again will she have such an exciting job as her assignment with North. "She felt she was at the vortex of history," says a friend. Her life is not likely to settle down just yet, however. Fawn is in sudden demand as a model, and Actress Farrah Fawcett has called with plans to portray her in a movie. Let's see, Ryan O'Neal could play Arturito, Cliff Robertson could be Oliver North...
...Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings published a novel about a boy and his pet, a doomed young fawn. It won the Pulitzer Prize and passed into many editions. The most valuable remains the version decorated with paintings by N.C. Wyeth (1882-1945), the great illustrator of Robin Hood and Treasure Island. Now, as a Reissued Classic, The Yearling (Scribners; $19.95) is again available. Once more the tragic but redeeming life of the Florida backcountry is illuminated by a giant of the genre...