Word: iran-contra
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...factious campaign, Oliver North took 55% of the vote and won Virginia's G.O.P. Senate nomination, defeating former Reagan budget director James Miller III. But the former Marine lieutenant colonel, a key Iran-contra figure, may have to face Democratic incumbent Charles Robb without total G.O.P. support. Virginia's Republican Senator John Warner had threatened to back the expected bid of former state Attorney General J. Marshall Coleman, who would run as an independent, in the event of a North victory...
...Watergate scandal pre-dates most of us, we know it well as the stuff of books and movies. And it is this, the sinister side of Richard Nixon, that has had a powerful effect on our generation, shaping our impressions of the scandals we ourselves have lived through--Iran-Contra, Iraq-gate and Whitewater...
...state of Virginia honors its traditions faithfully, preferring, in its genteel political combat, mediocrity over notoriety. But this year's Senate race, starring the wounded Democratic incumbent, Charles Robb, and his probable Republican challenger, Oliver North, of Iran-contra fame, competes with the soaps for sensationalism. Tales of sexual adventures and charges of mendacity were already staples when the subject of mental instability popped up last week. "This is the most bizarre race in the state's history," says Larry Sabato of the University of Virginia, an expert in ugly campaigns. "To have two scandal-drenched candidates is a breakdown...
Miller scored some points by reinforcing North's image as a shredder of documents and deceiver of Congress during the Iran-contra fiasco. But when a reporter asked Miller about his own mental health, he acknowledged a family history of mood disorders. His aides later said Miller consulted a psychiatrist after his father died. North was soon chortling that his opponent's "strategy of character assassination has backfired...
...unfit to serve in Congress, Warner says, that a "Republican white knight" should enter the race as an independent if North gets the nomination. Warner and his colleagues also elicited a letter from Reagan, for whom North lied to Congress and shredded key documents, attacking North's account of Iran-contra -- particularly North's published assertion, in 1991, that "President Reagan knew everything" about the scheme. "I am getting pretty steamed about ((North's)) statements," Reagan wrote. The steady assault on North's character has hurt his standing; a recent poll by Mason-Dixon Political/Media Research showed Miller tied with...