Word: liman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...should tell your friend Oliver North to send arms to the good guys" in Beijing, quipped Boston Globe Publisher William O. Taylor '54 to Chief Counsel to the Senate Iran-Contra Committee Arthur L. Liman...
...probably sell arms to the wrong people," Liman responded...
...Liman said control of the army would become increasingly crucial. "The big question is the loyalty of an army that is called the People's Army," Liman said...
...There was zealotry but also an attitude that the law was frustrating them from a noble cause," said Liman, who led the Senate questioning of North and other participants in the affair. "But rather than bow to these laws, they had to leapfrog them...
Should Congress have held no hearings until Walsh had his cases all set? Arthur Liman, the chief Senate committee lawyer, does not think so. "If Congress had not given immunity, the country would still be totally in the dark about what happened," he says. Ironically, while the defendants protested the hearings as unfair, their hours on TV may eventually set them free...