Word: reaganized
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...broader and still unanswered questions: To what extent was the former National Security Council staffer, as he claimed in his defense, following orders when he led a secret effort to provide assistance to the Nicaraguan rebels in defiance of congressional bans? Were present and former Government officials, including Ronald Reagan and George Bush, involved in a cover-up of the covert campaign? Why were documents suggesting that the former and current Presidents were more deeply enmeshed in the affair than either has acknowledged not given to congressional investigating committees...
...rogue who set out to thwart the lawful conduct of foreign policy, others are convinced that North is a patriotic pawn swept up in what he called a "chess game played by giants." The heart of his defense was that his actions were approved by such superiors as Reagan, former National Security Advisers Robert McFarlane and John Poindexter and the late CIA Director William Casey...
...used to in center field. But the Yankee Clipper knows the value of celebrity and the attraction of having the proof in writing. In the greatest reversal since Serutan, DiMaggio brought a baseball to a White House dinner last year, when Mikhail Gorbachev was visiting President Reagan, and acquired their autographs for free. "Reagan's is very precise," says DiMaggio, who once had to fight a souvenir collector at his bank to retrieve a check made out by Joe and endorsed by his then wife Marilyn Monroe. "Gorbachev signed it the way a doctor writes a prescription. In my whole...
This diplomatic vacuum is quite deliberate. Many aspects of American policy are still under debate; for example, Washington has not yet decided what changes, if any, to make in the framework for a start treaty that was all but agreed to by Gorbachev's and Ronald Reagan's negotiators. But the Administration's central theme is reasonably clear. In essence, George Bush proposes to stand pat and wait for Gorbachev to make the next move -- and probably the one after that and the one after that -- toward reducing tensions. As one senior American official puts it, the idea...
...extent that U.S. policy is changing, Bush is subtly but surely shifting to a harder line than the Reagan Administration followed. Not with any great consistency, however; in the absence of a clear lead from the President, various officials have been filling the air with words and actions that send out clashing signals as to just how tough the Administration means to be. Some examples...