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...public has been sharply divided about North since the scandal burst into the headlines in 1986. While many consider him a rogue who set out to thwart the lawful conduct of foreign policy, others are convinced that North is a patriotic pawn swept up in what he called a "chess game played by giants." The heart of his defense was that his actions were approved by such superiors as Reagan, former National Security Advisers Robert McFarlane and John Poindexter and the late CIA Director William Casey...
...earlier testimony before the Iran-contra committees. Soft- spoken and earnest, he admitted lying to Congress as well as altering documents. But always, he insisted, he was following the orders of his White House superiors. In yet another melodramatic but memorable statement, he declared, "I felt like a pawn in a chess game being played by giants...
...seeing Ho Chi Minh as a pawn of the Chinese communists, American politicians failed to realize that the rebels represented the nationalist desires of the Vietnamese people...
Four days after 3,500 machinists walked off the job to protest a proposed 28 percent pay cut, President Bush set the tone for the public debate on the strike: "I would urge [the striking workers] not to make the public--the innocent traveling public--a pawn in this dispute...
President Bush in Washington said pilots shouldnot "make the innocent traveling public a pawn,"and he stood by his opposition to governmentintervention to stop the walkout by the8500-member Machinists union...