Word: keyed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Soviet representative Kutovoy agreed thatpolitical acts should be combined with practicaldeeds, but said that decisions were in themselvesthe key to effective arms reduction...
...contradictions between his public and secret policies, complacently dependent on advisers who never once, from start to finish, presented him with any systematic analysis of aims, means, risks and alternatives. And, in the end, as a President unable to recall when, how or even whether he had reached the key decision that started the whole arms-to-Iran affair. Reagan's final word onwhether he had given advance approval for Israeli sales of U.S.-made weapons in 1985, delivered in a letter to the commission after he had first told it that he had and then that...
...intelligence committees but "did not fully relate the nature of events as they had occurred." This produced an "understandable perception," said the board all too softly, "that they were not forthcoming." More ominously, the board also expressed its concern that notes presumably made by Poindexter, the official notetaker at key NSC meetings, "appear to be missing...
...come up until Thursday afternoon, when the President met with his close friend Paul Laxalt, former Senator from Nevada. Laxalt himself had been considered, but he is still mulling a run for the presidency in 1988, and told Reagan he was not available; instead he recommended Baker. Two other key advisers, Attorney General Edwin Meese and Pollster Richard Wirthlin, agreed with the suggestion. Reagan phoned Baker that afternoon. Less than 24 hours later, Baker arrived at the White House. "We sneaked him in," chortled a presidential aide. "Not a $ soul knew." After conferring with both the President and the First...
During the trial, Defense Lawyer Verges tried to show that the circumstantial evidence against his client was too inconclusive to establish his complicity. Moreover, two key French witnesses claimed that Abdallah was only a minor player in the F.A.R.L. and thus unlikely to meet the requirements for proving complicity under French...