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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...will prove to be the most important witness the Iran-contra committees hear? No, not Oliver North -- at least not according to Warren Rudman, vice chairman of the Senate panel. After listening to North for four days last week, the New Hampshire Republican repeated a longstanding prediction: the crucial witness will be Ollie's old boss, former National Security Adviser John Poindexter, who follows North to the stand this week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Next, the Most Important Witness? | 7/20/1987 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Next, the Most Important Witness? | 7/20/1987 | See Source »

North's shredding of documents was so brazen that one new revelation of this activity prompted even the committees' toughest interrogator, Senate Chief Counsel Arthur Liman, to sit back amid laughter and say, "I want to hear more about it. Go ahead." North claimed that even as three aides from the Attorney General's office pored over his Iran files on the day they found the lone diversion memo, he had walked right past them with other papers and fed them into his office shredder, which they could hear grinding away. Didn't anyone, asked Liman, say, "Stop . . . What...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Fall Guy Fights Back | 7/20/1987 | See Source »

...that you don't start loud," Cissy says, "because then you have no place to go. I taught her that songs tell a story, and you don't blare out a story. Control is the basis for singing: up, down, soft, sweet. And diction was very important." You can hear the fruit of Cissy's lessons even in a dance tune like How Will I Know. In the refrain "If he loves me,/ If he loves me not," Whitney really punches that final t. No wonder: Mama was singing backup...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: The Prom Queen of Soul | 7/13/1987 | See Source »

...even in a man's world. After all, men can't wear dresses, but we can wear the pants." If she dares, professionally, to wear the pants -- if her song selection grows with her technique, if she rises to the challenges her voice can already meet -- she may soon hear the sweetest accolade. "Whitney Houston? Great singer! Oh, you mean she's pretty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: The Prom Queen of Soul | 7/13/1987 | See Source »

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