Word: iran-contra
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EVEN IF we say, which I am fearful of doing, that the Iran-contra scandal diminishes the likelihood of immediate American military involvement in Central America, the visible fact remains that the Reagan Administration's policy toward Nicaragua is a war policy. It is not easy to look at this policy and conclude that the Unites States is in anything less than a prolonged pre-war period at present. Whether Congress gives the contras $100 million, $500 million, or nothing at all, the current realities indicate that the proxy war will continue and that the contras...
Wherever the complicated trail of the Iran-contra affair leads, it seems at some point to intersect with retired Air Force Major General Richard V. Secord. The blunt, no-nonsense West Point graduate has remained aloof and silent since the scandal broke last November. But beginning Tuesday, when he appears as the joint congressional committee's opening witness, the mysterious Secord may become a household name and perhaps the first man to piece together the complex puzzle of Iranscam...
WASHINGTON--The Iran-Contra hearings turned combative yesterday with leadoff witness Richard V. Secord snapping, "I didn't come here voluntarily to be badgered," as he was peppered with questions about profiteering in secret arms sales to Iran and to Nicaraguan rebels...
Inouye, the chairman of the Senate committee investigating the Iran-contra affair, said the President "knew much more" than the White House has admitted, but Reagan said in an impromptu encounter with reporters yesterday he had "no detailed information" about the private network...
From his vantage point behind the table of the Tower board, Scowcroft noted a disturbing pattern. "I was struck by the number of times that front- page stories on Iran-contra appeared containing only the thinnest and most speculative of new material, just enough to generate a headline and to provide a hook on which to hang a rehash of the same old stories. In this manner the issue seemed to be able to sustain itself as big news, almost regardless of the emergence of new material...