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The silence is over. The cameras are in place, the microphones tuned, the TV networks willing, even eager, to drop their soap operas and go live to Capitol Hill. Investigators are armed with several cartons of papers turned over last week by the witness to guide their questioning. This week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Oliver North's Turn | 7/13/1987 | See Source »

According to this view, junior NSC officers, prominently including a specialist in counterterrorism named Oliver North, were given wide authority to call on all branches of the military and intelligence communities for assistance, with no questions asked. The officers were told to use their ! imagination and to try unorthodox methods...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Oliver North's Turn | 7/13/1987 | See Source »

In January 1986, for example, at North's urging, Reagan was persuaded to sign a finding authorizing the kidnaping of suspected terrorists. It also allowed the Government agents to monitor and harass not only individual terrorists and groups but also institutions that cooperated with them, such as foreign banks that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Oliver North's Turn | 7/13/1987 | See Source »

If Oliver North can break his silence so can I. I've decided that, for the betterment of mankind and the future welfare of this country, I should speak out against the latest thing to hit stadiums.

Author: By Michael J. Lartigue, | Title: Arena Football: Players in Search of a | 7/10/1987 | See Source »

Eventually, the Newtonian notion of the Constitution came to seem static. ; Thinkers like Woodrow Wilson and Oliver Wendell Holmes began referring to it as an animate thing. Wrote Wilson: "Society is a living organism, and must obey the laws of life, not of mechanics; it must develop."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Ark of America | 7/6/1987 | See Source »

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