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WORKING in Washington as a reporter and writer for a daily newspaper, I was assigned a story about Newsweek revealing that Lt. Col. Oliver North was a confidential source in a 1985 Achille Lauro story. When I accepted the internship, I knew my politics did not mesh with the conservative...

Author: By Julie L. Belcove, | Title: A Play Within a Play | 9/21/1987 | See Source »

Strobel admits that his frustration with the maze of federal rules and the often lengthy EPA approval process led him to start the elm test last June. Geneticist Duane Jeffery of Brigham Young University likens Strobel's actions to Oliver North's, contending that the scientist knew the rules and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Montana State's Troublesome Elms | 9/14/1987 | See Source »

As a spymaster with the Office of Strategic Services during World War II, William Casey was an action-oriented operator who dropped agents behind enemy lines. As Ronald Reagan's director of Central Intelligence 40 years later, Casey chafed at Washington's restrictive atmosphere. That, says a subordinate, & was one...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Out in The Cold | 9/7/1987 | See Source »

The secret Army still exists, but it seems quiescent for the moment. Most of Seaspray's aircraft have been parceled out to other units. The ISA is also still around; last year it had an agent under deep cover in Beirut, according to an Oliver North computer message inadvertently printed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Secret Army | 8/31/1987 | See Source »

Last week he did. In statements that echoed the recent pronouncements of a certain Lieut. Colonel Oliver North, Eitan maintained that he had done nothing in the Pollard operation without the direction of his superiors. "In all my activities, I did not act without approval," he said on a radio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Israel: Shades of Ollie North | 8/31/1987 | See Source »

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