Word: iran-contra
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Dates: during 1986-1986
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...sickening feeling of "here we go again," a dread of another orgy of public self-flagellation, of deepening public suspicion that might undermine all governmental authority. Nor was that foreboding confined to the Administration's allies. Journalists could sense among those Congressmen most determined to investigate the Iran-contra scandal an unspoken fear of where the investigations might lead, a kind of silent prayer that it would not once again be straight into the Oval Office...
WASHINGTON--Despite the storm over the Iran-Contra dealings and the drop in President Reagan's standing in the polls, Democrats are shying away from a frontal political attack on the president...
They can do that now. But the picture may change in January when the Democrats reap the results of the 1986 election and take control of the Senate, and with it, the leadership of the Iran-Contra investigation...
Bennis Professor of International Law Detlev F.Vagts said at least two separate legal violationsmay have occurred in the Iran-Contra connection...