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...Tower commission, appointed by the president to investigate the Iran-Contra affair, said it found no evidence to dispute Reagan's contention that he had no knowledge of the diversion...
...this week's issue, Church wrote the lead story in our discussion of the Tower commission's findings. It is his 77th cover story in 18 years at TIME. "The Iran-contra affair is more sustained than any previous news event I've been involved in," says Church. "This will be the fifth cover related to the controversy that I've done in four months." In terms of writing, it presents a growing problem. "There is by now a very long and complicated public record that you must cite to put the new developments in context," says Church. "The question...
...appointment of Howard Baker could turn out to be an important first step. To be sure, Reagan took it well past the eleventh hour. He had been under pressure from old friends, Republican allies and his wife to fire Donald Regan as chief of staff ever since the Iran-contra affair broke. Still, Reagan clung to his abrasive, autocratic chief of staff until after the Tower report came out. By comparison with the unsparing criticism directed at almost everyone else, Regan actually got off rather lightly: the commission found no evidence that he had played any significant part in planning...
...confirmation. Now the count is thought to be 8 to 7 -- and nobody is sure which side would wind up with the eight. The committee will question Gates again in closed session this week, but is likely to put off a vote, possibly until all congressional investigations of the Iran-contra affair are concluded. That would be a "solution" satisfactory to nobody; Gates would be running the CIA as acting director, probably for many months, but with a cloud hanging over...
Squabbles between two presidential advisers are common, but they rarely reach melodramatic heights. In recent months, however, a battle between Ronald Reagan's two closest counselors has been airing regularly, like a soap-opera accompaniment to news of the Iran-contra scandal. As the sniping between First Lady Nancy Reagan and White House Chief of Staff Donald Regan escalated, it only added to the image of a presidency adrift. "What is happening at the White House?" asked New Mexico Democrat William Richardson on the House floor last week. "Who is in charge? A constituent of mine asked...