Word: friends
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Jungle Gear. For a special friend who truly enjoys the company of elephants, snakes and water buffalo, Banana Republic (Charles Square) offers a pith helmet for $24. In case you're going into Africa, you can spend $42 on pleated front, lightweight cotton chinos at Banana Republic. For those who yearn to take to the skies, an authentic World War II flight jacket, $259, will take you up, up and away...
When he returned form South Africa, Waldorf says he met with a conservative friend who reminded him of many of his former arguments against sanctions and disinvestment. Waldorf says that he still agrees with a lot of the arguments, but that they seem "a little...
What messages does this send the rest of the world? It says that our government considers itself above the law and severely challenges the sincerity of high-level rhetoric about the U.S. being a "friend of democracy around the world." The Reagan Administration's ongoing duplicity and subterfuge regarding weapons sales to Iran and then funneling the money to the Contras in Central America further underscores this deception...
...Adnan Khashoggi, a wealthy Saudi businessman, entered the picture. Khashoggi fostered ties to two Israeli arms merchants: Yaacov Nimrodi, a former army colonel and longtime Israeli military attache in Tehran during the Shah's reign; and Al Schwimmer, the founding president of Israel Aircraft Industries and a close friend of then Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres. He brought them together with Manucher Ghorbanifar, an Iranian arms dealer who was close to Iran's Prime Minister. According to the New York Times, the four met in London, where Ghorbanifar proposed that the Israelis ship TOW antitank missiles and Hawk antiaircraft missiles...
Altogether, Connally and Barnes owe at least $60 million and have been hammered with a score of lawsuits charging nonpayment of loans. "Connally has gone through the same predicament that a lot of Texans are going through," says a fellow Texan and friend, former Democratic Party Chairman Robert Strauss. They "bet too much. They believed the trees were going to grow...