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...There is also a legal reason: judges may be more likely to force a news organization to reveal a source if in the past it has made such disclosures voluntarily. "If a judge knows that a particular institution has been less than consistent, he could be influenced by that prior practice," says James Goodale, a New York City attorney...
...paper urged her to call Archer, who offered to pay her $3,000 for a trip out of the country to escape reporters. The tabloid then published an account of those conversations but never explicitly claimed that Archer had known Coghlan in the past. Archer denied any prior association with Coghlan, claiming that he had "foolishly" suggested the foreign trip because he feared her story would be politically damaging. Nonetheless, he resigned his Tory office, to which he had been appointed a year earlier by Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher...
Poindexter was not alone in forgetting the 1985 finding. Last winter Reagan told the Tower commission that he had approved the initial Hawk shipment before the fact. The President later told the board members that he had had no prior awareness of the transaction. Finally, he wrote a note to the Tower board saying, "The simple truth is I don't remember -- period." After Poindexter's disclosure last week, the President still said he does not remember signing the finding...
Despite the intensive sparring, there was a palpable undercurrent of mutual respect. At one point Sullivan demanded to see a passage from prior testimony cited by Liman. "Fortunately," Liman said, smiling wryly as he reached for the document, "I am prepared." Sullivan smirked and shot back, "I knew you would be!" As the crowd tittered, Liman asked, "Can I read you something? Will you trust me to read this?" Replied Sullivan almost playfully: "If I did, I wouldn't admit it." In that moment it was clear that these adversaries, though locked in high-stakes combat, were enjoying the fight...
...Nicaragua. That company was founded and run by Colonel Richard Gadd, a retired Air Force cargo-plane pilot who was a longtime associate of Secord's. Gadd had also worked for the U.S. Army Special Operations Forces, which hired him in 1983 to transport helicopter pilots to Barbados prior to the invasion of Grenada...