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When Mr. Reagan addresses the nation Wednesday, there is one more thing that he can do to take the steam out of the steamroller that has been bearing down on him. He can offer the people an expression of genuine remorse. Even cleverly feigned regret will...
There were only a few words on Iranscam. He expressed "one major regret" -- that his Iranian policy "did not work." Though he came closer than ever before to admitting that his Administration had been trading arms for U.S. hostages, he stopped far short of the apology that some of his staunchest supporters had suggested. Indeed, without ever mentioning that weapons sales had been involved, Reagan proclaimed defiantly, "Certainly it was not wrong to try to secure freedom for our citizens held in barbaric captivity." Six sentences later, with no apparent awareness of inconsistency, he pledged that the U.S. will never...
...Washington, U.S. State Department Spokesman Charles Redman expressed regret for the deaths. In private, a State Department official said he felt the government was stable, though he expected more challenges as Feb. 2 drew near. "There is an obligation to hope that she will pull through," he said. "She is the only viable leader...
That meeting could conceivably provide Saddam with another opportunity to seek a negotiated settlement for a war that the Iraqi President started in 1980 and has long since come to regret. But given Khomeini's capacity for wreaking vengeance upon his bitterest enemy, it may be that peacemaking is something he will reserve for the Ayatullah's eventual successor...
...matter for the Marines to investigate. In any event, former National Security Adviser Richard Allen told the New York Times he was unaware of the hospitalization. Had he known, Allen added, he might not have hired North for the NSC staff. Allen, to be sure, quickly had reason to regret taking North on. A Government source told TIME that North was one of the three military officers who discovered $1,000 in cash in Allen's safe, paid by a Japanese magazine for Allen's help in arranging an interview with Nancy Reagan. Though Allen was cleared of any wrongdoing...