Word: quieting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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WASHINGTON--The nation's daytime summer fireworks, the Iran-Contra hearings, came to a quiet end after a 41-day run yesterday, with none of the 29 witnesses having tied President Reagan directly to the use of arms-sales profits for the guerrillas fighting in Nicaragua...
...question whether the independent counsel can win convictions, particularly after the outpouring of sympathy for North. Observes former Watergate Prosecutor James Neal: In Watergate, "serious criminal statutes were involved. Officials were obstructing an FBI investigation, there was a 'smoking-gun tape,' the White House was paying burglars to keep quiet. Here, everything is murky." Attorney Arthur Christy, a former special prosecutor who investigated charges against Jimmy Carter's aide Hamilton Jordan, also doubts that convictions can be achieved. Says he: "A good prosecutor might convince some jurors that North broke the law, but I doubt he could get twelve...
...essentially hocus-pocus about oversexed Resistance workers in the early days of the German Occupation. Alice and Jerome, both bright, attractive and world weary, have a glum affair going. Seeking a hideout for their efforts to help Jews, they descend on his friend Charles, who lives in a quiet town. Of course Alice falls in love with Charles; he is, after all, a man-child of nature who walks like an Italian beachboy. In the end, all three are separated by war. The trouble is that none of these people are believable as disciplined members of the underground. They...
SHOW BUSINESS: Artists fight AIDS with benefits, elegies and quiet heroism...
...ugly strains of the frontier mentality. His lawlessness, his belief in following superiors, his anti-communist zealotry combined his constant incantation of patriotism was bound to bring the bigots to his side. What is distressing is that North never repudiated that segment of his support. Brendan Sullivan was equally quiet. One can only be glad that the civil rights movement happened, enabling Louis Stokes, son of a Black cleaning lady, to sit as a United States Representative at one of the country's most important public hearings and remind his fellow countrymen why the Constitution matters...