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...high-ranking Israeli official told TIME last week that in late 1984 Israel was approached, first by Jordan, then by Iraq, for assurances that the ) pipeline would not be attacked. After high-level government discussion in late 1984 or early 1985, the official said, "we told them, go ahead, and have never heard a word about the project since...
...year before his talk with Durenberger, Bush attended more than 30 high-level meetings where the Iran policy was raised. He was present at the Jan. 6, 1986, session where the President signed a finding authorizing the sale of TOW missiles to win the release of American hostages. The next morning the President's top advisers, including Bush, gathered in the Oval Office. George Shultz and Caspar Weinberger testified that they vigorously opposed the arms sales, arguing that they would undermine the Administration's policy against terrorism. "I was intense," Shultz told the Tower commission. "Everybody was well aware...
...been out of the room at the time, and doesn't recall the two Secretaries' strenuous opposition. Had he heard them, Bush has said, "I would have moved to reconsider the whole project." A computer message, which was sent by John Poindexter only a few weeks later, noted the high-level opposition to the arms sales and concluded that the "President and V.P. are solid in taking the position that we have...
...been "touched by the CIA" a month earlier. Miranda claims that the defection was his own idea, born of a mounting disillusionment with the Sandinista regime. There seems little doubt that at least some of his information is accurate. As Ortega's right-hand man, Miranda had access to high-level meetings and sensitive documents. Ortega has conceded that Miranda's defection was the "most important betrayal" ever suffered by the Sandinista People's Army. But last week an army spokesman dismissed Miranda's charges. "He is emotionally and mentally unbalanced," said Major Rosa Pasos. She added that Humberto Ortega...
...Star Wars was set aside for another day -- and there were heated exchanges on human rights, the exalted pronouncements uttered in the afterglow were more than mere hyperbole. Something extraordinary was taking place: four decades of often truculent cold-war rhetoric were giving way to dispassionate discourse and high-level rapport. Neither side was forgetting the vast ideological chasm that separates the superpowers, but they were learning to work around their differences, to stake out common ground on which to build a better understanding...