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Arthur L. Liman '54, chief counsel to the Senate's committee on the Iran-Contra affair and a Harvard Overseer, last night detailed the virtues and drawbacks of Congressional investigations at a Harvard Law School froum...
...panel had heard allegations that as deputy director of the agency under William Casey, Gates ignored intelligence reports that did not conform to the political aims of the Reagan Administration. Also, some witnesses claimed that he may have misled Congress about his knowledge of the Iran-contra affair, a charge that Gates denied. Although some Senators shared Democrat Howard Metzenbaum's skepticism about the nominee's "uncanny ability to forget key events," those doubts were not enough to sink him. The full Senate, seeking to avoid another bruising fight over a presidential appointment, is expected to confirm Gates...
...doing in 20 years. But journalists aren't that normal -- and besides, how could Barrett Seaman have known in October 1971 that he would spend his 20th anniversary with our company in rural Wise County, Va., watching Oliver North, the ramrod Marine who mesmerized America during the 1987 Iran-contra hearings, campaign for Republican candidates? But for Barry, who excerpted North's autobiography, Under Fire, for this week's issue, getting a close-up look at the author in action was critical to understanding his enduring appeal. "We've all forgotten Olliemania," he says. "Liberals dismiss North as part...
Seaman brings unusual qualifications to his latest assignment. As senior White House correspondent during most of Ronald Reagan's second term, he covered the Iran-contra affair, speaking often with North's colleagues in the West Wing and on the National Security Council. He never succeeded in cornering the elusive lieutenant colonel himself, although he did once glimpse the infamous paper shredder. Firsthand knowledge of the players did not prevent Seaman from being surprised by some of the revelations in Under Fire, however. One disclosure was the extent to which the late CIA director William Casey "ran" North, schooling...
...central Iran-contra figure says in a new book he is convinced: "Reagan knew everything...