Word: iran-contra
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...been dizzyingly prosperous in the Reagan era, has suddenly fallen on leaner times. Faced with a $3 million shortfall in its $38 million annual budget, the committee last week laid off 40 of its 275 employees. Donations are down, say G.O.P. fund raisers, as a result of the Iran-contra scandal, disappointment with the Republican loss of the Senate last fall, and too many aspiring presidential candidates trolling for money from the same supporters...
...stately Independence Hall, while not far away some 100 supporters of the National Organization for Women demonstrated for an Equal Rights Amendment, chanting, "Hey! Hey! What do you say! Ratify the ERA!" While speakers redundantly eulogized the Constitution, Senate Majority Leader Robert C. Byrd, alluding to disclosures of the Iran-contra abuses, cautioned against "habits of power that are inherently undemocratic and unconstitutional...
...television; then the committees complain that America has been captivated by a witness's manner instead of concentrating on his words and deeds. Can't have it both ways. Turn an inquiry into a spectacle and you cannot protest that the audience is insufficiently attentive to the transcript. The Iran-contra committees could have modestly pursued their business off-camera, as did the Tower commission. No secrecy necessary -- the entire record could have been made public at the close of the investigation. Then there would have been no Ollie -- only Colonel North, the slightly disreputable, if not discredited, "switching point...
...course, Phillips Brooks House should keep a closer watch on its various organizations in order to prevent such incidents from happening. But as is evident from the recent Iran-contra hearings, not even the President of the United States can keep track of all of his programs...
Senator Rudman was the first to make an issue of the bigoted epithets which have found their way into many of the telegrams Sullivan has so agressively waved in the face of the Iran-Contra committee. He made a spirited and emotional defense of Inouye's character and a stern repudiation of the attitude reflected in those telegrams at one point during the hearings. Rudman's speech warranted scant attention in the press; it illicited a sullen agreement from North. But neither North nor his attorney, nor for that matter Senator Orrin Hatch or Henry Hyde, two of the biggest...