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The crisis began in early November, when a Lebanese magazine disclosed that the U.S. had sent military spare parts to Iran after a secret visit to Tehran by Robert McFarlane, the former National Security Adviser. Reports then started to proliferate that President Reagan, who repeatedly declared that he would never...
Oliver North? The deputy NSC director for political-military affairs? Washington insiders maintained that no lieutenant colonel could ever run such a complicated, clandestine operation alone. Those who knew North from the U.S. Naval Academy and Viet Nam were not so sure. Wherever he was, they said, he seemed to...
As the Iran-contra arms scandal unfolded on the small screen, Oliver North, who took to quoting the Bible and asking for divine assistance, became a household face and name in an unfinished political mini-series. There is more to come, and it remains to be seen whether North will...
White House Adviser Oliver North, Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev and South Africa's Nelson and Winnie Mandela left their stamp on the year just past.
As she contemplates the enormous challenges before her, Aquino can take heart, perhaps, from her rare gift for surprise. Stalin is said to have claimed that "you can't make a revolution with silk gloves." Edward Bulwer- Lytton, the British 19th century novelist, believed that "revolutions are not made with...