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...commission is developing other evidence suggestive of a cover-up. It is focusing on preparation of a chronology, drafted last November by Lieut. Colonel Oliver North with the assistance of McFarlane, Poindexter and several CIA officials. Reagan based some of his statements in his disastrous Nov. 19 press conference on the "Ollie chronology," as it was once called; the White House has explained that it later discovered portions were inaccurate...
...experiment, a space vehicle launched on a Delta rocket tracked and targeted another rocket and then maneuvered to collide with a satellite. The demonstration, however, was somewhat rigged: the rocket orbits were preprogrammed, and a reflector on the target rocket magnified its image 1,000 times. Nevertheless, Air Force Lieut. General James Abrahamson, SDI's director, argues that the $150 million demonstration proved it is feasible for a smart rock to locate a missile shrouded in its own exhaust plume and track other objects in space. Although he says Delta 180 fell within the strict ABM guidelines, SDI supporters argue...
Shortly before 6:30 each weekday, the gray Toyota station wagon glides down the driveway and stops a few feet beyond the steel security fence in Great Falls, Va. Lieut. Colonel Oliver North rolls down his window to greet the watching press corps shivering in the dark. Ever cordial, the former National Security Council aide exchanges light banter with the group. A photographer warns him that an accident is already clogging commuter traffic, and North retorts in mock dismay, "You mean I have to listen to the news?" A few flashbulbs pop and North speeds down the narrow country road...
...lapsed into civil war. The Tonton Macoutes, President-for-Life Jean-Claude Duvalier's brutal secret police, have not resurfaced, contrary to widespread rumors that they were regrouping in the Dominican Republic. The shaky rule of the National Council of Government continues under the uninspired leadership of Lieut. General Henri Namphy, but the oft-predicted coup has not materialized. One year after Duvalier and his family fled to exile in France, Haiti continues to limp toward democracy...
...Lieut. Colonel Oliver North deliberately bypassed the State Department when he distributed special intelligence reports on Iran to selected Government officials in September 1985. A few months later, however, North provided intelligence reports on the Middle East to Manucher Ghorbanifar, the Iranian merchant who was the middleman for negotiations between the U.S. and the Islamic nation...