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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...TIME Washington correspondents who reported this week's cover stories did what almost every American near an electrical outlet tried to do last week: they watched Oliver North testify on Capitol Hill. But the correspondents attended the sessions in person and then called sources for reaction. "More legwork is required in reporting major scandals than in any other type of reporting," says Congressional Correspondent Hays Gorey, who recalls wearing out a few pairs of shoes covering Watergate. "Sources are so few and reporters so many that dozens of calls are never returned. You have to track sources to restaurants...
North charged up Capitol Hill and took the forum away from the politicians. He played over the heads of the joint congressional committee, aiming his passionate rhetoric and complex charm at the 50 million people watching on television, the real audience and jury at the proceedings. The obscure, middle-level NSC staff member -- said to be a "loose cannon," an aberrant zealot from the White House basement -- did not behave like a guilty character caught at misdeeds, like a raccoon startled by a flashlight in the middle of the night...
...four days of testimony, North had accumulated a foot-high pile of telegrams of support (GOD BLESS YOU, GOOD LUCK AGAINST THOSE ILL-BRED HYENAS). Dozens of floral bouquets were delivered to the Norths on Capitol Hill...
...various fix-up projects at home in Rockville, Md., Poindexter at first tried to ignore all developments in the growing Iran-contra scandal. But for the past three months he has spent his time in the Washington office of his attorney, Richard Beckler, preparing for his appearance on Capitol Hill. Last week he sat glued to a TV set, watching North's testimony and expressing admiration for his former aide's assertiveness. Though Poindexter has no hope of matching it, he has been taking lessons from his lawyers in how to avoid potential traps set by cross-examiners...
...Lieut. Colonel Oliver North spun out his story with a dazzling display of charm, guile and unbridled self-righteousness during his long-awaited appearance in the Iran-contra hearings, he portrayed himself as a dutiful junior officer, ever willing to "salute smartly and charge up the hill" at any order from his superiors. Yet the bemedaled Marine refused to fall on his sword and take full blame for the scandal that has wounded his Commander in Chief. Although he confessed candidly -- and defiantly -- to blatant lies and deceptions, North also threw what even he called "Ollie North's dragnet" over...