Word: iran-contra
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...Democrats' move was seen as primarily aneffort to focus attention on the administration'sinability to account for more than 10 milliondollars in previous aid money, an issue alreadyraised by last week's Tower commission report onthe Iran-Contra affair as well as by congressionalinvestigators...
...remarks before addressing the Harvard Model Congress yesterday. Secretary of Defense Caspar W. Weinberger '38 blasted the Tower Commission report saying its conclusions about his participation in the Iran-contra affair were "completely wrong." Weinberger also said that he and Secretary of State George F. Shultz repeatedly advised President Reagan to abandon the arms-for-hostages policy...
Weinberger praised Reagan's speech Wednesday night, in which the chief executive accepted responsibility for the Iran-contra affair and pledged to adopt the Tower Commission's recommendations for restructuring...
Weinberger praised the appointment of Frank C. Carlucci to head the NSC, and he said that William Webster's nomination for the top job at the CIA was "absolutely perfect." Both Carlucci and Webster will take over agencies implicated by Iran-contra controversy...
Professors and politicians said last night that President Reagan's address on the Iran-contra affair, although successful, was only a first step in remedying the damage done to his administration by the scandal...