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...this year, Reagan held a second full-scale discussion. Shultz and Weinberger again argued strenuously against the arms sales, but they left the conference feeling uncertain that they had swayed an enthusiastic Reagan and his equally gung-ho NSC and CIA advisers. Ten days later the President signed a secret intelligence "finding," thus permitting "occasional" arms transactions with Iran in spite of the continuing embargo. He assigned management of the deals to the CIA and instructed Casey to conceal the project from Congress. At the same time, Reagan ordered that intelligence traffic on the arms shipments be kept from...
...conversation: "action officers," "action plan," "action" used as a synonym for operation. The word itself is an easily deciphered clue, for Lieut. Colonel Oliver North, 43, the man at the epicenter of the Iran arms earthquake, considers himself the quintessential man of action. He is the very definition of gung-ho, and it was that spirit that may have taken...
...past few years these tendencies have combined with two others that were almost bound to cause trouble sooner or later. One is a penchant for covert actions that fit in with Reagan's gung-ho activism. Finding some legal justification for them was another of those details that the President left to aides. The other tendency was to delegate disproportionate authority to subordinates who took a can-do approach, and then to let them operate with little supervision. In retrospect it seems absurd that so ostensibly minor a functionary as North would have been entrusted with such delicate matters...
Such is the way that moviemakers and the military do business together. The combination of Top Gun's box-office success and America's current mood of gung-ho patriotism has sent studios scrambling to produce war movies: the Pentagon is currently reviewing more than 200 screenplays. Says Los Angeles- based Navy Liaison Officer Sandra Stairs: "I've seen ten times more scripts now than in the previous two years." Each of the four services, as well as the Coast Guard, maintains a liaison office in Los Angeles to handle requests for everything from old uniforms to tanks. The Pentagon...
...biology concentrator, Grant is a "very competitive fellow," says Dan F. Voytas, a teaching fellow for Biology 7. Voytas says he found that surprising, since "before, he had no one to compete with but himself." He adds that Grant is very "gung-ho" about everything, but has become more focused since his freshman year...