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...Iranscam investigations have exposed an explosive side issue: North's efforts to funnel aid to the contras from private sources and other countries. He gave pep talks to private fund raisers like Carl Channell, who were collecting for the cause, and he was involved in overseeing covert arms shipments. Other officials knew of his wide-ranging efforts...
Moscow's nonstop diplomatic offensive is creating interest in the West, particularly in Western Europe. In London a Marplan survey suggested that Gorbachev is overtaking an Iranscam-weakened Ronald Reagan in the battle for public opinion. Among British respondents, 30% said they trusted Reagan more than the Communist boss to end the arms race, vs. 27% who put faith in Gorbachev...
...applauded wildly. Most of these activists backed Ronald Reagan as far back as 1976, when he nearly wrested the party's nomination from Gerald Ford. Even today, as Reagan battles his worst political crisis, CPAC's confidence in its hero remains high. Most of the participants consider Iranscam a murky irrelevancy, a distraction from their agenda of a still stronger defense, a reduced government, a return to the "moral values" of yesteryear. When Reagan told the group he was no lame duck but was "saving his best stuff for the last act," some listeners shouted, "Four more years! Four more...
...Judgment, according to ancient religious tradition, all secrets will be revealed and all hidden sins bared. The report on Iranscam that a presidential commission is due to make public Thursday will not quite measure up to that standard. But as the torrent of leaks and revelations last week made clear, the document will lay open all manner of embarrassing foreign policy secrets and possibly point to some indictable misdeeds as well. As publication day approached, an almost palpable sense of fear settled over the , White House. Some aides went so far as to speculate that, depending on how Ronald Reagan...
...reasoning could be wishful thinking. Last August, the House approved contra aid by a mere twelve votes. Notes Florida Democrat Dante Fascell, chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee: "A strong President, at the height of his popularity, was just able to drive it through." In the wake of Iranscam, he predicts, "there will be a lot of people saying 'Not this time...