Word: ransoms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dark and dashing film executive comes running! With amazing speed and savvy, he and a band of executive sidekicks fashion socko new feature films and perform brilliant marketing acrobatics. Finally, the studio swings across the threatening void. On the other side it finds -- what else? -- a king's ransom...
FIRST IT WAS the prisoner swap that wasn't a swap. Then it was the hostage ransom that wasn't ransom. And now we may have the nuclear defense that isn't a defense...
...action we could have in Iran," he said in an interview with TIME last week. "I am not going to disavow it. I do not think it was a mistake." Even now he seems unable to appreciate that this action shattered & his own vehemently proclaimed principle of never paying ransom to terrorists, and in the process dented the moral stature and credibility that is the true source of America's unique clout in world affairs...
...case, it should have been obvious that the arms shipments could not be kept secret forever and that once they were known, the U.S. would appear to be violating its own strictures against paying ransom to kidnapers and their supporters. That impression is now out, raising potentially disastrous questions about the Administration's credibility and competence. The underlying cause is the same one that has led to other foreign policy failures: the President's predilection for seat-of-the-pants diplomacy. To prevent any further unraveling of his foreign policy, the President needs to rein in the NSC staff...
...national security adviser, Adm. John Poindexter, and Reagan's chief of staff, Donald T. Regan, made themselves available to morning news shows less than 12 hours after Reagan said he had sent small quantities of weapons to Iran not to ransom the Americans held hostage by pro-Iranian forces in Lebanon but to reopen contact with Iran, a strategically important nation governed by Islamic fundamentalists...