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...Follow the money" was the terse advice the legendary source Deep Throat offered to Reporter Bob Woodward in the movie version of All the President's Men. As the intricacies of the Reagan Administration's Iran-contra supply line were probed last week, the money trail became a source of innumerable leads for reporters (including the Washington Post's Woodward) and investigators for congressional committees who were scrambling to uncover a financing scheme that coiled across three continents. The path led through a complex maze, replete' with international intrigue, conflicting claims by governments and shadowy diversions of funds by mysterious...
Even as Ronald Reagan tried to regain control of events in the most serious crisis of his presidency, new revelations about these secret machinations kept him on the defensive. There seemed no quick way to clear up the mysteries stemming from the Administration's admission two weeks ago that up to $30 million in profits from secret shipments of U.S. arms to Iran had been diverted to support the guerrilla warfare of the U.S.-backed contras against Nicaragua's Marxist Sandinista government...
...assertion by Amiram Nir, Israel's adviser on counterterrorism to Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir, that the U.S. decided what price Iran should pay for the American arms. Although President Reagan has insisted that a third country, presumably Israel, had been "overcharging" Iran for weapons shipments, Nir told his Israeli government superiors about a meeting, probably in Washington early this year (late January or early February) at which North set the price at three or four times the book value of the weapons. Nir claimed that other unnamed White House officials attended the meeting and "no one asked questions" about...
...help from the U.S. Government, Calero replied, "There are things I just don't want to know. My father always said, 'Don't let people confide in you. They will confide in other people too, and you will be blamed.'" As the Iran-contra scandal unfolds, many in the Reagan Administration may eventually resort to the same know-nothing defense...
...that struck and killed a bicyclist. The driver took off, leaving Carlucci facing an angry crowd. There was some pushing and shoving, and before he could be rescued, Carlucci ended up with a knife in his back. Thus when he was appointed last week as President Reagan's new National Security Adviser, Carlucci became the first man to have been stabbed in the back even before he assumed that highly exposed post...