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This new "Yes, but it wasn't illegal" tack is part of a broader White House attempt to shift the focus of the Iran-contra drama. As long as Reagan and other top officials were pleading ignorance, each new disclosure about their ties to Oliver North's secret contra-supply network qualified as a front-page headline. Now the Administration is stipulating that it did indeed support the contra cause but that this was well within the bounds of the shifting congressional restrictions that existed between 1983 and 1986. Thus the very real moral and political questions about a secret...
...question regarding the President's duties under the law is sure to remain the major focus. Underlying the dispute over Boland's technicalities is a far more sweeping provision. Article I of the Constitution obliges the President to "take care that the laws be faithfully executed." At the very least, that would seem to have required Reagan to launch a careful study of what was forbidden by Congress under the Boland amendment and to insist that his aides abide by the results. So far there is no evidence that any such review was ever undertaken...
About 100 Boston-area subjects, who wereguaranteed anonymity, attended 11 "focus" meetingsto discuss ways of reaching drug users throughadvertising, Rangan said. He added that those whoattended the meeting received $15 compensation...
Spencer decides to test Esteva's patience by hijacking a dope shipment. He succeeds, and the take is 300 kilos of cocaine. Just how he is going to sell it back to Esteva becomes the main focus of the last third of the book...
This decision makes Orton the man, not Orton the event, the focus of the film. We get an idea of the outrageous sexual farce Orton concocted for the Beatles in his never-made Up Against It, but Prick Up Your Ears is far more concerned with the irreverent way Orton dealt with McCartney and Co. than with what he wanted...