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...official who presided over the White House staff while the ill-conceived policy was unfolding. Neither Attorney General Edwin Meese nor former Chief of Staff Don Regan did much to shake the devastating portrait that has emerged from the hearings of a secret foreign- policy apparatus run amuck and key officials more concerned with pulling together a convincing alibi than getting to the bottom of the tangled tale...
While there were extraordinary revelations fromsome of the key witnesses in the nationallytelevised hearings--principally former NationalSecurity Adviser John M. Poindexter and his aide,Lt. Col. Oliver North--the basic story of thecomplicated affair remained unchanged after thehearings began...
...blunt testimony seemed to mesmerize the committee. After Oliver North's flag-waving and Poindexter's tale of keeping Reagan ignorant of the diversion of arms profits to the contras, Shultz's dead-earnest presentation carried a clearer ring of credibility. His memory on key points seemed to be sharper than the highly selective recollections of North and Poindexter. Among a number of legislators commending Shultz, Republican Senator Warren Rudman of New Hampshire told him, "The real heroes are people who speak up to their President, make their views known, and are willing to take great personal risks in confronting...
...Shultz wound up his testimony, several of the committee's Republicans questioned his actions. "You walked off the field when the score was against you," said Ohio's Republican Congressman Michael DeWine. "You took yourself out of the game . . . Our foreign policy suffered because the two key players, George Shultz and Ronald Reagan, were out of the game." Replied the % Secretary: "That's one man's opinion, and I don't share...
...huge amounts of money they give, TIME conducted a month-long investigation of these often secretive organizations. In the process of piecing together a comprehensive picture of the inner workings of PTL and other ministries, correspondents scrutinized hundreds of documents and crisscrossed the U.S. to speak with the key performers and more than 100 inside sources, many of whom had previously refused all interview requests...