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...sale of arms to the Iranians and the department took no part in the operation, according to President Reagan. On the other hand, the State Department has been active in formulating and carrying out U.S. policies in Central America, notably efforts to help the contras in their fight against Nicaragua's leftist government...
...Whoa, wait a sec, dude, slow down. What about the war on drugs? You're not suggesting that the U.S. government sell drugs to finance the rebels in Nicaragua, are you?" This time he was going...
...hard work and challenges ahead. As the biggest Washington story in years broke last week, much of TIME's Washington bureau staff gathered in Bureau Chief Strobe Talbott's office to watch Ronald Reagan announce that funds from Iranian arms sales had been diverted to the contra rebels in Nicaragua. Even as the President spoke, Talbott was on the line to Nation Editor Walter Isaacson, who was watching the disclosures with writers and editors in New York City. Among the most intense watchers: Senior Writer George Church, whose job was to weave the week's events and their meaning into...
...these stories. So I can speak more viscerally than if I hadn't felt the sting of some of these false charges. There is this insidious suggestion that I was conducting an operation. It's untrue, unfair and totally wrong. I met Max Gomez three times and never discussed Nicaragua with him. What I did discuss was what he was doing in terms of the counterinsurgency in El Salvador, something that is of fundamental policy interest to the U.S. There was no linkage to any operation, yet it keeps coming up. There are all kinds of weirdos coming...
...past two years. One possibility is that the funds were used to finance the string of airlifts that have delivered supplies to the rebels during the past few months. Those flights received unwanted publicity two months ago, when a C-123K air-transport plane was shot down over southern Nicaragua and an American crew member, Eugene Hasenfus, was captured and tried by the Sandinistas. But most of the supplies, according to a knowledgeable source, consisted of boots, clothing and small arms...