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...Saturday, Dec. 6, the national uproar over the Iran-contra affair was at a peak. In his weekly radio address that afternoon, Ronald Reagan made yet another attempt to quell the roiling scandal, assuring listeners that "it was not my intent to do business with Khomeini, to trade weapons for hostages." The secret efforts to forge ties with "moderates" in Iran had been "broken off," the President stated...
...latest currency upheaval may have had ominous implications for international cooperation but, paradoxically enough, it failed to quell investor confidence in the booming U.S. stock market. Last week the Dow Jones average of 30 industrial stocks continued its spectacular rise past the magic 2000 mark that it attained on Jan. 8. After showing gains every day since the New Year began and reaching record heights each day for the past two weeks, the Dow closed at 2076.63, up more than 3.5% last week...
...Christmas brought no respite. Ronald and Nancy Reagan exchanged gifts (a red robe for her, a horse blanket for him) and on Saturday flew off to Palm Springs, Calif., for a week's vacation, but in the Oval Office the President kept a low profile. Perhaps the holidays would quell the furor over the Iran arms scandal, if only temporarily. But Iranscam offered only more grim tidings: continued inertia and infighting at the White House, increased squabbling between the Administration and Capitol Hill over how to clear up the mess, questions about the health of CIA Director William Casey...
...coordinated attempt to overthrow the government." With that piece of hyperbole by an information official, South Africa last week imposed one of the most draconian censorship policies in the non-Communist world. Only six months after it had decreed a harsh emergency rule in an effort to quell rising racial unrest, the government of State President P.W. Botha now sought to shroud the country's apartheid-torn society in a veil of secrecy and intimidation. Though the move was aimed principally at curtailing the domestic and foreign press, its overall intent was to cut off South Africa, its people...
Although Bok made a number of public appearances--including a debate with Secretary of Education William J. Bennett in October--and issued one report on CIA funding of research, neither action led to any tangible change in the way Harvard operates. They simply served to quell or dispell concern about University policy. The policy-making apparatus remains off-limits to those whom it affects...