Word: iranian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Santa Monica, Calif., a 37-year-old theatrical producer, has been scrambling ever since her daughter Zoe was born 2 1/2 years ago. In that short period she has employed a Danish au pair, who quit after eight months; a French girl, who stayed 2 1/2 months; and an Iranian, who lasted a week. "If you get a good person, it's great," says Theriot, "but they have a tendency to move on." Last September, Theriot decided to switch Zoe into a "family-care" arrangement, in which she spends seven hours a day in the home of another mother. Theriot...
Hall's work was not over. Confronted by Attorney General Edwin Meese on Sunday, Nov. 23, North admitted the scheme to divert funds from the Iranian arms sales to the contras. On the following Tuesday, Hall was startled to find NSC officials boxing up North's papers. To her horror, she realized that the false documents were still on her desk and were about to be discovered. In panic, she called North at a hotel and whispered for him to return to the office. "I was very emotional at the time," she told the committee. Hall frantically stuffed some...
...Button account was disclosed by a key player in the scandal, Iranian- born Businessman Albert Hakim. He handled the financial side of the Iran- contra "enterprise," while North took care of the political end and retired Air Force Major General Richard Secord, a business partner of Hakim's, oversaw operations. "I intended to profit from my activities," said Hakim. "I never made any pretense about that fact." And profit he did. The enterprise made a total of $14.9 million from its transactions; $8 million of those profits were frozen in bank accounts after the scandal broke...
According to Hakim's testimony, North's motives may have been tainted by politics as well as profit. Hakim said he attended a secret meeting between North and other U.S. officials and Iranian government representatives in West Germany last October. North, said Hakim, was extremely eager for all of the U.S. hostages to be released before the November congressional elections, to "enhance the position of the President." But the Americans and the Iranians were at loggerheads. As North prepared to leave the meeting, Hakim asked if he could take over the negotiating. North gave him six hours...
...outsider, but he took his absurd style of governing as a government outsider a bit too far when he allowed his aides to formulate and execute American foreign policy in the White House basement, bypassing the State Department as well as the Congress. At one point Albert Hakim, an Iranian financier and arms merchant, was sent to Iran by high administration officials to negotiate secret treaties on behalf of the U.S. with the ayatollahs...