Word: iran-contra
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Perhaps Mitchell's greatest claim to public fame was his performance last year during the Iran-Contra hearings. In a quiet but nationally televised confrontation with Lt. Col. Oliver North, who had testified with great patrioticfervor, Mitchell looked at the witness and spokeinto the microphone...
...seen a fair share of disaster and dissapointment. The murders of Robert Kennedy '48 and Martin Luther King Jr shocked Americans by showing the nation's violent side. Faith in government was shattered by the successive blows of Vietnam, Watergate, the sour economy of the 1970s and the Iran-Contra scandal...
Finally, Bush tends to lose concentration at times when he cannot be convinced his attention is required. Aides say that trait explains such "abnormalities" as his shockingly inert role in the Iran-contra affair. It also accounts, they say, for the marked improvement in his speaking style between the middle primaries, when Bush was not fully involved in political theater, and the postconvention period, when he appreciated that the stakes were high...
WASHINGTON--The Justice Department came to Oliver L. North's defense yesterday by objecting to the Iran-Contra prosecutor's argument that the former presidential aide defrauded Congress' powers over foreign affairs...
...department disputed Walsh's theory that the Iran-Contra defendants can be prosecuted for deceiving Congress about the clandestine arms-supply operation set up to help the Contras at a time when the so-called Boland Amendments banned U.S. military aide to the rebels...