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Across the Capitol, sources said the House panel investigating the Iran-Contra connection had notified independent counsel Lawrence Walsh that it might have to make a decision on granting limited immunity to witnesses sooner than he wishes...
While the Iran-contra scandal has virtually monopolized the attention of the American media since last November, Europeans tend to wonder what the fuss is all about. To a great many of them, the scandal seems like yet another perplexing case of American moralism run wild, a national exercise in self- flagellation. Many Europeans, who also never fully understood why Americans became so upset by the Watergate affair in the mid-1970s, feel that such a crisis could never happen in their own countries. TIME's Paris bureau chief Jordan Bonfante examines the European bewilderment concerning Iranscam...
While Vice President George Bush still retains a big lead among Republicans as the first choice for his party's presidential nomination, he has been hurt by the Iran-contra scandal. Fully 48% of all Americans (and 34% of Republicans) believe Bush was more deeply involved in Iranscam than he has so far told the American public. Bush's favorable image among Republicans and independents has fallen from 68% to 63% since a similar TIME poll last May. In that survey, Bush and Kansas Senator Robert Dole had the same 68% favorable rating; Dole has since dropped...
...questionable whether the White House emphasis on Reagan's lack of culpability will really help defuse the scandal. In a poll for TIME last week by Yankelovich Clancy Shulman, 58% of the respondents said that what bothered them most about the Iran-contra affair was that the public had not been told everything that happened. More than three-fourths of the public believe that Reagan is still holding back what he knows...
...Iran-contra arms scandal unfolded on the small screen, Oliver North, who took to quoting the Bible and asking for divine assistance, became a household face and name in an unfinished political mini-series. There is more to come, and it remains to be seen whether North will someday be regarded as a bit player in an ephemeral scandal of a widely popular Administration or the central protagonist in a torturous national drama...