Word: iran-contra
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...show of force is necessary, as Reagan reels from the Iran-contra scam. Pressure now could tip the scales in Congress against contra aid for 1988 and forever. Increased sanctions against South Africa could also gain momentum. The April 25th rally promises more than a good time--it promises real change...
...respite will be brief. On May 5, Congress is scheduled to begin its public hearings on the Iran-contra affair. While the scandal has been off the front pages recently, congressional investigators and Independent Counsel Lawrence Walsh have slowly and meticulously been building a powerful case against the melodrama's key players. Sources close to the probe told TIME last week that there is now "enough evidence to indict people...
...Iran-contra affair an anomaly, a single departure from the Administration's high standards? Take a look at Reagan's style in dealing with domestic affairs; the same type of deviousness which led to trading arms for hostages and then calling the deal something else characterizes even the Administration's most innocuous policies...
...drugs, where so much uncontroversial good could have been done, a scrupulous Chief Executive would have restrained his base political urges. Further, such relatively routine cases of deceit and hypocrisy--which do a nice job of warping leaders' values--serve to bridge the gap between simple political manipulation and Iran-contra affairs...
When Lieut. Colonel Oliver North sat down at his computer terminal to compose memos to his superiors at the National Security Council, he made a common assumption. He thought his electronic missives -- relaying confidential details of the ill-fated Iran-contra deal -- were more secure than messages sent by post or by telephone. The magnitude of that error now confronts him in bookstore windows around the country. For not only have hundreds of those potentially incriminating messages been recovered by federal investigators but they also are available to all, in published copies of the Tower commission report...