Word: iran-contra
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...been embroiled with Iran since 1979, first with the hostage crisis, then with Iran-contra, now with the "axis of evil." And if the past is any indication, that entanglement--sour, multiform and intractable--is likely to last decades: it took four Presidents, two wars and several treaties to get us out of the bad relationship the last time we tried...
...history in the past decade -- the invasion of Lebanon, the de facto annexation of the territories through settlement by Israelis, many of whom are religious fundamentalists, the Pollard affair in which the Israeli government assigned an American Jew to spy on the U.S., the Israeli involvement in the Iran-contra enterprise -- has raised the question of whether Israel has lost its way. Israel's accomplishments have the prestige of the miraculous. To many Jews, Israel is a fact of primal identity -- primal precisely because it lived...
...motion a campaign of retaliatory kidnappings, hijackings and assassinations against the U.S. and the West. The Iranian charge was a senior IRGC officer, and the IRGC had no intention of letting his kidnapping go unanswered. The IRGC campaign lasted for more than 10 years and dragged the U.S. into Iran-contra and the arms-for-hostages deal that nearly brought down the Reagan Administration...
...Reagan feels it came as a "bolt from the blue," and now he considers it the most serious problem he has confronted during his 14 years in public office. According to an intimate, the President remains "very disappointed and very disturbed about what he was not told" about the Iran-contra scandal. Reagan still thinks he does not know all the details of the Iranian arms shipments and the subsequent funneling of profits to the Nicaraguan rebels. "Everybody keeps saying that they want all the facts," says this ally. "My God, so does he!" In his radio broadcast Saturday...
...detached style of governing had changed the public's perception of leadership. Now it is likely the electorate will yearn for a candidate who not only has a vision for the nation but promises to bring to bear the hands-on managerial competence that was so lacking in the Iran-contra affair...