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Since the eruption of the furor over the Iranian arms sale and the Administration's revelation that proceeds were funneled to Nicaraguan rebels, State Department officials, including Shultz himself, have taken strides to distance themselves from the operation...
Reagan did not discuss possible staff changes when he spoke to businesswomen in the White House. Instead, he said he hoped the furor would not undercut support for the Contra forces fighting the Sandinista government in Nicaragua...
...acquisition trend, however, is still vulnerable to further Boesky- related disclosures, and the odds are good that there will be plenty. Most of the furor that the Boesky case has caused so far comes from the SEC's Nov. 14 judgment against the arbitrage superstar. That, in turn, was based on the relationship investigators uncovered between Boesky and Dennis Levine, the former managing director of Drexel Burnham who first blew open the scandal when he was charged last May with illegal trading in 54 stocks...
...White House decision to schedule a full-scale news conference, Reagan's first in three months, in the midst of the furor over Iran reflected the President's own confidence. He showed not the slightest doubt about his decisions to begin secret diplomatic contacts with Iran and to back them up with arms sales, and he appeared to feel as certain as ever that he could explain things to his public critics. At his routine "prebrief," during which aides playing reporters fire questions that the real journalists might later ask, Reagan responded to some with breezy quips...
...these challenges to the Administration's vaunted spin-control talents, the latest furor threatens to do the most damage. It flies in the face of deep public aversion to Iran, to dealing with supporters of terrorism and to using arms shipments as a bargaining tool for the release of hostages. Not surprisingly, the twelve-minute talk Reagan finally gave was perhaps the most defensive of his presidency, with only occasional touches of his usual confident eloquence...