Word: reaganism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Bush re-election campaign, Deputy Secretary LAWRENCE EAGLEBURGER will fill his shoes at State. Even so, President Bush is unlikely to nominate Eagleburger as his new Secretary of State. A former ambassador to Yugoslavia, Eagleburger has become a subject of the House Banking Committee inquiry into charges that the Reagan and Bush Administrations improperly allowed Iraq to use U.S. funds and sensitive American technology to build its war machine. The committee is also probing Eagleburger's actions as a onetime director of a Yugoslav bank that was later convicted of money laundering. Eagleburger has not been linked directly...
...politicians routinely vie with each other for the Li'l Abner prize for most humble, most miserable upbringing. The Democrats in Madison Square Garden were no exception. After four days of speeches a foreign visitor could be forgiven for thinking indoor plumbing was a Reagan-era innovation...
B.C.C.I.'s connections to American intelligence operations resulted in a paralysis of enforcement. In January 1985, for example, long before U.S. Customs agents stumbled across B.C.C.I. in Florida, the CIA hand-delivered a secret report, described within the CIA as "dynamite," to Ronald Reagan's Treasury Secretary Donald Regan. According to CIA testimony before the Kerry committee, the report stated that B.C.C.I. secretly owned First American. Regan's intelligence aide sent back word that they already knew about B.C.C.I. and were not interested in learning more...
There is evidence that the Reagan Administration knew early on about B.C.C.I.'s criminal activities. Dr. Norman Bailey, a former member of the staff of the National Security Council, has told TIME that in 1982, the NSC began receiving a stream of intelligence reports detailing the bank's arms trafficking, drug involvement, support of terrorists and role in the transfer of U.S. technological secrets to countries such as Pakistan and the Soviet Union...
...ambition is shaped by the material world of the 1980s. How could it be otherwise? The twenty-year-old himself declares that "my memories begin with Ronald Reagan." But his optimistic dreams of success don't match the grim reality of a great idea gone sour. The Plants, the nuclear weapons facilities that made his hometown boom with prosperity, are now all but shut down, spreading a virus of unemployment and decay...