Word: irancontra
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...example, he said that only six of 2000 Washington journalists were assigned to the Watergate story in the first six months following the burglary. A similarly small number covered covert aid to the Nicaraguan contras before the congressional Irancontra hearings began...
...events that prompted the Irancontra scandal were illegal and undemocratic, said House Iran-contra Committee Counsel John Nields in a panel discussion last night...
...HISTORIAN will duly catalogue all this, of course. And inevitably he will contrast it with the far right's view of the Irancontra investigation. For the very group which argues that Congress has a duty to defeat the "Reagachev Doctrine" also vigorously denounces Congressional intervention in foreign affairs, particular in regard to the Irancontra affair committee's proceedings and majority report. Congress on the one hand is an essential part of the foreign policy process and, on the other, is a mortal threat...
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