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...page report as the Tower commission press conference unfolded. National Political Correspondent Laurence Barrett tracked Nancy Reagan's conflict with Donald Regan. Correspondents Hays Gorey and Michael Duffy scoured Congress for reactions. Pentagon Correspondent Bruce van Voorst investigated CIA involvement. And Correspondents Alessandra Stanley and Ricardo Chavira concentrated on Lieut. Colonel Oliver North and the contra connection. "With all the details required for my stories," says Church from his New York City office, "I often wonder how the bureau ever manages to come up with the stuff we need." Then he grins. "But, you know, they always...
...wonder that Lieut. Colonel North did not have the time or inclination to linger over literary style. For as the Tower report voluminously documents by reprinting those memos, North was operating as a reckless and overburdened free agent of the NSC. During 1985 and '86 he simultaneously conducted a tense and frustrating series of arms-hostages negotiations with Iran and coordinated a supply line for the contras in Nicaragua. Like the ringleader of a vast, secret circus, North masterminded an elaborate network of boats and planes, along with not-for-profit corporations and Swiss bank accounts to help...
...Weinberger -- and sometimes even the President -- in the dark about North's activities. This secrecy was compounded by the lack of any governmental supervision or internal review of the NSC operation. The result, says the commission, was an "unprofessional" program that failed to achieve even its own objectives: "Repeatedly, Lieut. Colonel North permitted arms to be delivered without the release of a single captive...
...orbit of the U.S. Government. Their activities were not subjected to critical reviews of any kind." The result was "unprofessional" and "unsatisfactory"; in negotiating with Iran, North failed to achieve even his own questionable goals. "The U.S. hand was repeatedly tipped and unskillfully played," said the commission. "Repeatedly, Lieut. Colonel North permitted arms to be delivered without the release of a single captive...
...could say Fawn Hall wasn't loyal. When her boss, Lieut. Colonel Oliver North, asked her to work weekends at the National Security Council, she readily agreed. Hall, 27, a strikingly pretty blond with blue-green eyes, often turned down modeling jobs because she was afraid they might interfere with her secretarial duties. Hall even rejected the chance to take a screen test because she was just too busy. Said a friend: "She was a good employee, and a good employee does what her employer wants...