Word: iran-contra
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WASHINGTON--Fawn Hall testified yesterday she spirited secret documents from the White House when the Iran-Contra connection was revealed because she feared they would fall into the wrong hands...
...Iran-contra scandal, which has focused concern on President Reagan's apparently lakadasical management style, stands to help Dukakis, because friends and colleagues have long characterized him as a hands-on manager interested in the details and execution of policy...
WASHINGTON--Fawn Hall, Oliver North's former White House secretary, told congressional committees yesterday that she helped him shred a foot-and-a-half stack of documents as the Iran-Contra affair began unraveling last fall, then walked out of the White House with other papers hidden in her clothing...
After watching Major General Richard Secord's testimony in the Iran-contra hearings ((NATION, May 18)), I have come to admire this man. We live in a complicated world, and our Government must have people like Secord who are qualified both technically and temperamentally to handle the brutal realities...
Someone should note the similarity between the Iran-contra affair and the American War of Independence. In 1776, Louis XVI of France, in defiance of his ministers, authorized secret aid to the beleaguered colonies and solicited 1 million livres from the Spanish government for arms with the guarantee that the King of Spain would not be implicated. Without this aid, the war would have been lost...