Word: friends
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When former Georgia State Senator Julian Bond was accused by his estranged wife last March of using cocaine, the ensuing drama soon added Atlanta Mayor Andrew Young to its cast. The mayor, Bond's friend and fellow Democrat, was suspected of obstructing justice by cautioning Alice Bond not to spread rumors...
Within the Government, he was far more comfortable talking to colleagues by computer messages than face-to-face. Indeed, it was his fondness for electronic conversation that created many of the memos he will be grilled about this week. At home, his wife Linda has jokingly told a friend that she is looking forward to her husband's testimony "because I'll probably hear him say more words in a week than I've heard in 29 years of marriage...
...procedural points and claimed they were not treating his client fairly. While accusing the panel of stalling, he proved himself a master of the same technique: whenever Liman seemed to have North cornered, Sullivan would interrupt the questioning with an objection or whispered advice for his client. Says a friend of Sullivan's: "He objects when he wants North to be able to think about his answer. He also tries to throw off the timing of the opposing counsel...
North described Casey, who died May 6, as his "personal friend and adviser" who "never once disagreed with any of the things that I was doing." Instead, Casey told him "how they might be done better." The two "communed" regularly, North explained, in a relationship that he understood was not to be "something that was publicly bandied about." North did not, it was apparent, even tell his chain-of-command bosses, Poindexter and former National Security Adviser Robert McFarlane, how much influence Casey had over the activities they ostensibly supervised...
...Fawn Hall. "And the good Lord gave her the gift of beauty, and the people snicker that Ollie North might have been doing a little hanky-panky with his secretary. Ollie North has been loyal to his wife since the day he married her." When he asked his "best friend" Betsy about the purchase, she told him, "You old buffoon, you went there to buy leotards for our two little girls...