Word: iran-contra
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...went on to get a journalism degree at the University of Texas in Austin, then worked for two years on the San Antonio Light. After graduating from Harvard Business School in 1981, she joined the Los Angeles Times, for which she covered everything from the oil industry to the Iran-contra affair to Bob Kerrey's 1992 campaign for the presidency. She interrupted her campaign stint to have Nicholas, now 2, with husband Paul Richter, a White House correspondent for the Los Angeles Times...
Former allies of VirginiaGOP Senate nominee Oliver North-- including his former Marine commanding officer -- are circulating newly-released documents from his Iran-Contra criminal prosecution to persuade voters he's a liar. The group, Veterans Against North, took a lengthy list of what prosecutors said were North's false or misleading statements, and matched them with documents andtestimony that rebut North's claims. "My general sense is that if you were an undecided voter, this ought to be a major influence on your thinking," said former Marine Maj. Gen. Fred Haynes, who once commanded North. The North campaign response: "More...
...last 24 hours were Oliver North's latest turn at being a punching bag in the gloves-offVirginia Senate race. Late Thursday in New York, former First Lady Nancy Reagan laid into the Iran-contra figure-turned-Virginia GOP Senate contender: "I know Ollie North has a great deal of trouble separating fact from fantasy. And he lied to my husband and lied about my husband, kept things from him that he should not have kept from him . . . " North praised Ronald Reagan's presidency as the "greatest" of his lifetime and said he didn't want to "get into...
...President Clinton -- whom he characterized as "not my Commander-in-Chief" -- for weakening the American military to the point of being unable to stop Saddam Hussein in Kuwait. Though North later claimed he had been misinterpreted, Vice President Al Gore lost no time in striking back at the former Iran-contra colonel, condemning his remarks as "despicable" and "unpatriotic." To which, in turn, Senate Republican leader Bob Dole felt compelled to retort,"Cheap shot...
Virginia needs to rebuff North's attempt to reenter the circles of government. He was fortunate enough to avoid prison time for his role in the Iran-Contra scandal; his reputation outside of his media-saturated state still reeks of duplicity. Certainly Virginia has nothing to gain on a national level by electing North. The state would go from "Home of Presidents" to "Home of Guns-for-Hostages...