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...Lt. Tuck Pendleton, he played...
...Lt. Colonel Oliver North did not achieve hero status as a result of television. Rather, he is a creature of Western Union...
...Good luck against those ill-bred hyenas," said another. North has personally received some 15,000 telegrams of encouragement. All the while, Ollie-entrepreneurs were trying to capitalize on the fascination. At a Young Republicans' convention in Seattle, Joel Shelton sold out his 20 $4 Oliver North buttons (LT. COL. OLIVER NORTH -- ANAMERICAN HERO -- DUTY, HONOR, COUNTRY) in an hour. "And when I ran out of them," he says, "people seemed kind of angry that there weren't more." A Washington rock-'n'-roll band released a song to the tune of Johnny B. Goode called Ollie Be Good. Sample...
That mentality is one trial right at the moment, with Lt. Colonel Oliver North serving as the Eliot Ness stand in. After lecturing the congressional commitee for days on patriotism, Senator George Mitchell reminded him that others love America just as much as he does. Mitchell's point was that it is destructive to concentrate on labelling people as patriots or traitors, good men or bad. What is valuable is to understand what it means to love one's country, or to stand for justice. Such an understanding requires more complex thinking, but results in a more humane world...
...Watching Lt. Col. North testify in Congress this week, one is struck by the extent to which our foreign policy has been conducted without the consent or knowledge of the American people for the past few years. But the shock turns to dismay when one realize that Harvard runs itself in much the same way. Administrators run the school and students watch, not knowing what they do and, in many cases, not caring anyway...