Word: hawk
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...time of the Meese inquiry, Poindexter said, one of his aides turned up a finding that authorized U.S. facilitation of a November 1985 sale of 18 Hawk antiaircraft missiles from Israel to Iran. Poindexter testified that he watched Reagan sign the document on or about Dec. 5, 1985, his first day as NSC chief. The problem with this finding, said Poindexter, was that it depicted the transaction as a trade of arms for the release of Americans being held hostage in Lebanon. The paper would be superseded in January by a finding that explained the weapons sales and freedom...
North's unwelcome embrace also took in Meese, who had sat silent at a White House meeting on Nov. 20 while Casey, Poindexter and North proposed a false story that no U.S. Government officials had been aware the previous year that Israel had shipped Hawk missiles to Iran with the help of the CIA and the NSC staff. Meese claims that he did not learn of the Hawk sale until last November, but North asserted that the Attorney General knew of it the year before. In November 1985, North testified, he saw a signed copy of a now missing presidential...
Shipment of Hawk Missiles...
...brothers' first attempt at controlled powered flight belongs in history's blooper file. Orville's timepiece read 3 1/2 sec. when the Flyer reared and bounced into a hill. Wilbur had used too much rudder and stalled 15 ft. over the beach at Kitty Hawk, N.C. Orville's turn came three days later, Dec. 17, 1903, at 10:35 a.m. He took the clattering rig to an altitude of 10 ft. and traveled through the air for about 40 yds. before coming down hard enough to crack a skid...
...Spenser-Hawk combination is not used as much in Pale Kings as in previous novels. Instead, Hawk winds up an extra gun when Spenser needs him near the end. But their time together is quality time, with Hawk using his best Kingfisher accent and trading quips with Spenser. What little interplay there is in the novel still works well...