Word: iranscam
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...that he regretted having resigned in December 1985, in the midst of a turf battle with White House Chief of Staff Donald Regan, to become a counselor at Georgetown University's Center for Strategic and International Studies. He missed the excitement of Government service, for all its headaches, and Iranscam probably extinguished his prospects of becoming a policymaker again. Instead of being regarded as a wise elder statesman as he had hoped, McFarlane found himself viewed as the official who had first favorably presented a plan to sell arms to Iran, and thus led the way into a disaster that...
...part in the burgeoning Iranscam investigations deepened McFarlane's depression. He has testified more fully than anyone else. But, says his lawyer Leonard Garment, "the more information he gave, the more he became an object of scrutiny." Another friend adds that "he is a loyal ((former)) Marine suddenly thrust into the role of John Dean," the Nixon White House Counsel whose Senate testimony fueled the Watergate scandal...
McFarlane's near tragedy did not interrupt the flow of Iranscam revelations. The presidential commission, headed by former Republican Senator John Tower of Texas, postponed its report for one week, until Feb. 26, after announcing that it had discovered "new material" on the scandal. Reports are that the new evidence consists of computer records, thought to have been lost, detailing far-flung and possibly illegal efforts to raise money for the Nicaraguan contras by former National Security Council Aide Oliver North...
...another few days one of the big events will rumble out of the spartan offices behind the gray metal door of Room 5221 in the New Executive Office Building, its explosive potential held between two cool-blue covers. The report from former Senator John Tower's commission to investigate Iranscam and the errant apparatus of the National Security Council may run to several hundred pages of raw data...
...most sweeping attempt to regulate a personal practice since Prohibition, countless new laws tell Americans where they can and cannot light up. -- A taciturn central figure in Iranscam feels the pressure and attempts suicide. -- As the baby boomers mature, the baby- bust generation is poised to make an impact of its own. -- A drug- interdiction program sputters in a slow start...