Word: iran-contra
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...Iran-Contra affair began with a sense that the fundamental precepts of the Constitution were under attack. The government appeared to be run out of the basement of the White House, covertly and with no acountability to anyone. American history dictates that such a major betrayal of public trust would be corrected--like the Watergate impeachment proceedings. After at this is a government by, for, and of the people...
WASHINGTON--The judge in the Iran-Contra case ruled today that Oliver L. North, John M. Poindexter and two other defendants each be tried separately, so they can defend themselves using each other's congressional testimony given under a grant of limited immunity...
...notch in his belt simply because he proclaims himself a native son. This kind of "Southern Strategy" won't work in the face of Dukakis' strong Hispanic and Black support--33 percent of the state's population is Black and Hispanic. Questions about his involvement in the Iran-contra scandal and his knowledge about Meese's ethical transgressions will plague him to defeat...
...highly classified documents and "tempest- tested" computers that give off no electronic emanations that spies could pick up. A new hush-hush CIA facility? No, just a room in which lawyers for Oliver North and his fellow defendants can examine Government documents that they might need during the forthcoming Iran-contra conspiracy trial...
...advisers still haven't solved their major remaining problem: how to move cleanly but loyally away from Reagan and establish Bush's credentials as a forceful, independent leader. Traveling to such secondary media markets as Evansville, Ind., and Lima, Ohio, last week, Bush was pursued by questions about Iran-contra, Ed Meese, the trade-bill veto and the Administration's lackluster civil rights record. In each case, the Vice President swallowed hard and forcefully stuck with the boss. That can't continue indefinitely. "Reagan knows that Bush must eventually cement his own relationship with the American people," says Bush Political...