Word: iranscam
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...Reagan Administration, April has been the kindest month on the Iranscam calendar. A long, brutal winter of damaging leaks and accusations culminated in the release of the Tower commission report, the cathartic firing of Chief of Staff Donald Regan and his replacement by Howard Baker, followed by the President's address and press conference on the scandal in March. The advent of spring has provided a welcome time-out for Reagan and his new advisers...
...information unearthed reportedly transcends the discoveries of the Tower commission. "People were very careful," says one prober of the Iranscam schemers. "But they left a great paper trail." Some of the most important evidence, however, was not on paper but on computer tape: the White House has provided investigators with much more of the electronic correspondence between former National Security Adviser John Poindexter and his aide, Lieut. Colonel Oliver North, that proved so valuable to the Tower commission. These new messages, says a committee member, will be as crucial to explaining the essential mysteries of Iranscam as the White House...
Probers suspect that former CIA Director William Casey played a dominant role in Iranscam, despite his proclaimed ignorance of the scheme. Casey, who underwent surgery for a brain tumor last December, resigned in January, and his physicians have maintained that he is unfit to testify. The lawmakers plan to send their own doctor to examine Casey and report on whether he is capable of delivering testimony. One investigator justifies this step by explaining that if Casey does not talk "we may never know" the extent of CIA involvement in the scandal...
...rather than hope and promise. Israel's national spirit is sagging under the weight of a succession of embarrassing scandals. These include the Shin Bet affair, in which two Arab terrorists were killed while in the custody of Israeli security officials in 1984, and Jerusalem's role in the Iranscam arms deals and the Jonathan Jay Pollard spy case, which involved an American Jew spying on the U.S. for Israel...
Turn-to scenarios posit that either party could turn to a fresh alternative, in the midst of a messy primary season or as the result of a deadlock leading into the conventions. Both front runners are vulnerable: George Bush still exudes weakness even as his boss recovers from Iranscam. Gary Hart's nominal supporters, according to last week's New York Times/CBS poll, are not committed to him yet, and old questions about his character are likely to resurface, at least temporarily, when the campaign heats up. Both parties have growing lists of challengers who seem likely to command...