Word: iran-contra
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...American public is very traditional, and in times of crisis, such as during the Iran-Contra hearings, traditional values take greater prominence," said Jan C. Smith, assistant to Marttila and Kiley Consultants, Biden's political consultants. "But the expectations that people have about candidates are too strong and too burdensome...
UNDENIABLY, the U.S. military presence in the Persian Gulf is a military mistake. Yet it is also an overpowering political necessity, a much-needed opportunity for the US to restore credibility lost in the Iran-contra affair. And so far America has met that challenge...
...drawn to explore the back channels of power. Her sources are mainly books, articles and public documents about the connections among anti- Castro Cuban refugees and anti-Communist activists in the U.S. Government. The ties -- clear, confusing and some crazy enough to be true -- are there, as the Iran-contra hearings disclosed. Veracity, rumor, deceit and braggadocio are hard to separate. "To spend time in Miami is to acquire a certain fluency in cognitive dissonance" is Didion's evaluation of her experience. Translated from the Latinate, this means she could not make sense out of the town. To compensate...
...critics on the committee. "Any Senator who decides to just jump in and portray Bork as some racist, some evil Neanderthal, is going to be in deep trouble," says Republican Committee Member Alan Simpson of Wyoming. Many hopeful conservatives, remembering the turnabout in public opinion during the Iran-contra hearings, envision Bork as "Ollie North without the medals...
...prevent a replay of the surge in sympathy for North, Biden has ordered that the table for the committee members be placed at the same level as that of the witness. In the Iran-contra hearings, where the congressional members sat on a dais, the television cameras made it seem that they were lecturing and hectoring the witnesses from on high...