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...refused to fight back this time. Declaring that Reagan was "the greatest President of my lifetime," North said his "mother told me never to get into a fight with a lady." Vice President Al Gore added his own voice to the squabble, referring to North as "a pathological liar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Silliest Race of the Season | 11/7/1994 | See Source »

Former allies of VirginiaGOP Senate nominee Oliver North-- including his former Marine commanding officer -- are circulating newly-released documents from his Iran-Contra criminal prosecution to persuade voters he's a liar. The group, Veterans Against North, took a lengthy list of what prosecutors said were North's false or misleading statements, and matched them with documents andtestimony that rebut North's claims. "My general sense is that if you were an undecided voter, this ought to be a major influence on your thinking," said former Marine Maj. Gen. Fred Haynes, who once commanded North. The North campaign response: "More...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: VIRGINIA . . . ANTI-OLLIE VETS MUTINY | 11/2/1994 | See Source »

...Friday , just hours after former First Lady Nancy Reagan called Virginia GOP Senate hopefulOliver Northa liar, Vice President Al Gore got himself in trouble with the following jab at North's $17 million war chest: "He is banking on the fact that he can raise enough money from the extreme right-wing -- the extra-chromosome right wing -- to come in and buy enough advertising to just overwhelm the truth with blatant falsehoods." North's campaign staff seized on the phrase to accuse Gore of insensitivity to children with Down's Syndrome, pointing out that extra chromosomes cause the condition. Gore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: VIRGINIA SENATE . . . OLLIE GORES AL FOR GAFFE | 10/31/1994 | See Source »

...North praised Ronald Reagan's presidency as the "greatest" of his lifetime and said he didn't want to "get into a fight with a lady." Today, Vice President Al Gore began Round Two with his second jab at North in as many weeks, calling him a "pathological liar" and disgrace to the Marine Corps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: VIRGINIA . . . NOW IT'S NANCY'S TURN TO BOP OLLIE | 10/28/1994 | See Source »

...next day at a press conference arranged by the U.S. embassy, which supplied a microphone and technicians. Speaking mainly in English, he urged FRAPH members to "put down" their arms and accept the return of Aristide to power -- sentiments greeted by an unbelieving crowd with shouts of "Liar! Killer! Rapist!" He left, protected from a howling, spitting crowd by U.S. military police. Which seems strange, since in early summer he had threatened to organize a guerrilla war to kill any foreign troops that dared to land in Haiti...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lying Down with Dogs | 10/17/1994 | See Source »

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