Word: reckless
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...description of a meeting between Sharon and Lebanese leaders prior to the 1982 massacre of Palestinian refugees in the Sabra and Shatila camps in Beirut. The description was defamatory, the jury held, but TIME did not libel Sharon because the magazine's statement was published without knowing or reckless falsity...
Forward momentum was something Reagan desperately needed after months adrift in the Iran-contra scandal and the devastating report from the Tower commission depicting an inattentive President surrounded by reckless advisers. The President's response to the report, and his widely applauded appointments of a new White House chief of staff and CIA director to go along with his new National Security Adviser, gave a boost to an Administration that had been foundering. Though it failed to address several of the more troubling aspects of Iranscam, the meticulously crafted twelve-minute speech showed that Reagan recognized the severity...
...Director William Casey, and a Chief of Staff Don Regan whose proclaimed mastery of spin control failed miserably when faced with a matter of substance. And while these officials floundered, Oliver North, with the approval of his boss on the National Security Council staff, John Poindexter, showed a reckless disdain for the laws of the land by creating a covert network to fund the contras in Nicaragua while trading arms to the Iranians...
...wonder that Lieut. Colonel North did not have the time or inclination to linger over literary style. For as the Tower report voluminously documents by reprinting those memos, North was operating as a reckless and overburdened free agent of the NSC. During 1985 and '86 he simultaneously conducted a tense and frustrating series of arms-hostages negotiations with Iran and coordinated a supply line for the contras in Nicaragua. Like the ringleader of a vast, secret circus, North masterminded an elaborate network of boats and planes, along with not-for-profit corporations and Swiss bank accounts to help...
...President, exposed as uninvolved and unaware, must try to redraw the panel' s devastating portrait of a leaderless Administration. -- Washington hails the choice of Howard Baker as chief of staff. -- Computer memos detail Oliver North' s reckless overreaching. -- Reagan Agonistes: Author Garry Wills muses on the evanescence of the Reagan bedazzlement. See NATION...