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Liman was expected to treat North as he had earlier witnesses, using a blend of relentless hammering and withering sarcasm. Instead he addressed the Marine calmly but sternly, pressing forward to expose the contradictions in North's answers. While some thought Liman may have been intimidated by North's popularity, others viewed the chief counsel's cross-examination as a cagey shift in strategy. Says one Liman associate: "By staying in low gear, he got more out of North in part of a day than ((House Counsel John Nields and George Van Cleve)) did in 2 1/2 days...
...York City Police Officer Janis Curtin resumed her assignment in south Queens just eight weeks after the birth of Peter. The screaming sirens and shrill threats of street thugs were just background noise to a relentless refrain in her head: "Who can I trust to care for my child?" She tried everything, from leaving Peter at the homes of other mothers to handing him over to her police-officer husband at the station-house door when they worked alternating shifts. With their schedules in constant flux, there were snags every step of the way. Curtin was more fortunate than most...
After the bailout of Mexico, the next major challenge for Volcker came in the summer of 1984, when Continental Illinois, once the seventh largest bank in the U.S., suffered a relentless run on its deposits after word got out about its immense pile of bad loans. To stave off a crisis, Volcker helped assemble a package of $4.5 billion in fresh commercial-bank loans for Continental. "This is a very historic thing," remarked a New York City banker. "This is the first time the Fed has been party to any kind of statement that 'nobody is going to lose.' " While...
Such are the scenes of morning in the scandal-scarred spring of 1987. Lamentation is in the air, and clay feet litter the ground. A relentless procession of forlorn faces assaults the nation's moral equanimity, characters linked in the public mind not by any connection between their diverse dubious deeds but by the fact that each in his or her own way has somehow seemed to betray the public trust: Oliver North, Robert McFarlane, Michael Deaver, Ivan Boesky, Gary Hart, Clayton Lonetree, Jim and Tammy Bakker, maybe Edwin Meese, perhaps even the President. Their transgressions -- some grievous and some...
DIED. James Jesus Angleton, 69, relentless, enigmatic director of counterintelligence at the Central Intelligence Agency from 1954 to 1974; of lung cancer; in Washington. Angleton was an early member of the Office of Strategic Services, the World War II precursor to the CIA. His trust-nobody style while working in what he called espionage's "wilderness of mirrors," and his pursuit of Soviet agents in the U.S. and moles within the CIA, won him respect from insiders but little public notice. He has been credited with helping to expose Kim Philby, the British journalist who worked for the Soviet Union...