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When Oliver North wanted to get something done quickly, secretly and with a minimum of fuss, he called his friend Richard Secord. In November 1985 Secord came to the rescue of frazzled White House officials by deftly diverting a plane that was scheduled for a weapons shipment to the contras...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Man of Many Talents | 5/11/1987 | See Source »

Secord testified on Wednesday that fired White House national security aide Lt. Col. Oliver North told him the President knew of the diversion of Iran arms sales money for that purpose.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Secord Denies Profitting From Irangate | 5/8/1987 | See Source »

WHAT WAS not tremendous was the show biz gimmickry, from stupid patter about Jim and Tammy Bakker to the vastly overrated spinning song wheel. This business detracted from the music itself--and for no apparent purpose. It is strange that someone like Costello, generally acknowledged as one of the greatest...

Author: By Jeff Chase, | Title: A Night of Brilliance and Mistakes | 5/4/1987 | See Source »

Giving orders were Lt. Col. Oliver L. North,Alan D. Fiers, the head of the CIA CentralAmerican Task Force, and Abrams, who was chairmanof the group, assistant secretary of state forinter-American affairs and Tambs' supervisor,Tambs said in Phoenix.

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: President 'Aware' That Money Went For Contra Arms | 5/4/1987 | See Source »

The English speakers tend generally to be more liberal than Afrikaners on racial questions. In September 1985 Relly and a cohort of other corporate leaders voyaged to the Zambian capital of Lusaka to confer with Oliver Tambo, the exiled president of the African National Congress. Relly later declared, "All of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Wrong Tribe | 5/4/1987 | See Source »

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