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The TIME Washington correspondents who reported this week's cover stories did what almost every American near an electrical outlet tried to do last week: they watched Oliver North testify on Capitol Hill. But the correspondents attended the sessions in person and then called sources for reaction. "More legwork is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From the Publisher: Jul. 20, 1987 | 7/20/1987 | See Source »

Although the capital was awash with expressions of support for Oliver North, reaction to the Marine lieutenant colonel among the public at large was more qualified. In a poll taken for TIME last Thursday evening by Yankelovich Clancy Shulman,* 60% of those surveyed call themselves "sympathetic" to % North, but no...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Assessing the Performance | 7/20/1987 | See Source »

At that moment, on the left side of the television screen, another Marine, Oliver North, leaned forward in the witness chair in the Senate Caucus Room, listening, his eyes gone now from disingenuous to wounded, then brightening to a righteous glint.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Charging Up Capitol Hill | 7/20/1987 | See Source »

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...

Author: By David J. Barron, | Title: Crimebusters Galore | 7/17/1987 | See Source »

The rest of the family, however, is not always able to achieve such equanimity. North recently confided to a friend that Tait is bitter about how her father is being treated and at one point angrily criticized the U.S. for dealing with him so unfairly. Her father quickly rebuked her...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: True Belief Unhampered by Doubt | 7/13/1987 | See Source »

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