Word: iran-contra
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...news media picked up the story immediately, and the term "Olliemania" was coined. The telegrams served to provide North with something his medals proved incapable of. The telegrams gave the National Security Council staffer, who was in charge of much of the Iran-contra affair, a measure of invincibility. To challenge North was to challenge all those telegrams. North seemed to have the voice of the people on his side...
...matter how grim life may seem and how insistent his critics are that Reagan look and act despondent, he refuses. Amid Washington's Iran-contra catharsis, Reagan has wandered off unexpectedly in his odd little byways...
...busy schedule, trying to portray himself as a man with more important work. But in the back corridors of the White House, the sound from the televised hearings leaked out from behind a door or two. Two aides of White House Counsel A.B. Culvahouse monitored every second of the Iran-contra drama; another White House lawyer posted himself in the hearing room to catch the off-camera subtleties and interplay. The Communications Office got it all on tape should Reagan want to take a full look later. The White House was walking on Ollie's eggs...
...Administration is in God's hands," argues Valentin Falin, a principal Soviet spokesman and director of the press agency Novosti. "If Oliver North reveals Mr. Reagan as a co-conspirator, then your President will not be worth a kopek." While the Soviets may be relishing the Iran-contra crisis, their interest is more strategic than voyeuristic. Reagan's current predicament, combined with Mikhail Gorbachev's success at consolidating his own power in the Politburo at his party plenum last month, has convinced many in Moscow that Reagan now needs a summit far more than Gorbachev. As a result, a wide...
...time being, the Soviets seem content to sit back and monitor the Iran-contra hearings before taking their next step. If Reagan emerges unharmed, Gorbachev may be quick to clear away the obstacles to an INF accord and a summit. If, on the other hand, the President's reputation -- or Shultz's -- is further wounded by the hearings, the Kremlin might decide it has the upper hand. Soviet observers contend that the President, along with his political advisers, may realize that only a successful summit can deflect attention from the Iran-contra affair and assure Reagan a favorable mention...