Word: norths
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...former National Security Adviser John Poindexter accomplish what Oliver North could not: force Ronald Reagan or George Bush into a courtroom grilling about the Iran-contra scandal? Last week Poindexter's lawyer, Frederick Robinson, insisted that Reagan had ordered the admiral to tell Congress that the NSC staff was not violating restrictions on U.S. aid to the contras at a time when, in fact, it was. He also contended that Poindexter had briefed Bush about each White House meeting on Iran-contra that the then Vice President had missed. If so, Bush's knowledge might be far more extensive than...
Federal Judge Gerhard Gesell killed North's subpoenas for Reagan and Bush, partly because North rarely met with either the President or the Vice President. But Poindexter saw Reagan almost daily, and he dealt regularly with Bush. The decision on who must testify in Poindexter's trial will be made by Federal Judge Harold Greene, who reminded Robinson that "so far, ((Reagan)) has not been required to appear at trial." Replied Poindexter's lawyer: "No, but we're looking forward to it, your honor...
...Western Europe is also seeking to adapt to a changing world economic order in which America's pre-eminence has eroded as fast as its foreign debt has grown. Project 1992 is a response both to a global economic leadership vacuum and to the growing commercial challenge posed by North America, Japan and the fast industrializing economies of Asia. The opening up of Western Europe's protected national markets will hurt inefficient firms, but the hope is that enough competitive winners will emerge to ensure that Western Europe has its champions in the 1990s and beyond. West European governments...
...fight are easy to understand for anyone who has seen the almost unimaginable sweep of the Amazon basin. The river and forest system covers 2.7 million sq. mi. (almost 90% of the area of the contiguous U.S.) and stretches into eight countries besides Brazil, including Venezuela to the north, Peru to the west and Bolivia to the south. An adventurous monkey could climb into the jungle canopy in the foothills of the Andes and swing through 2,000 miles of continuous 200-ft.-high forest before reaching the Atlantic coast. The river itself, fed by more than 1,000 tributaries...
...crush Soviet Russia in a quick campaign." The battle plan called for some 148 divisions -- more than 3 million men -- to attack in three main drives along a 1,000-mile front. One army group would strike northward, toward Leningrad; another army group from the Warsaw area would move north of the Pripet Marshes toward Moscow, which Hitler planned to level and leave forever uninhabitable; the southernmost group, from Rumania, would storm across the Ukraine toward Kiev and Stalingrad. "Operation Barbarossa" would smash Russia within six months...