Word: revealing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Poindexter reveal other funding methods involved...
...Lebanon John Kelly had bypassed the Secretary of State to conduct negotiations for the release of American hostages with, in Kelly's words, "arms to Iran as an inducement." Kelly had reported his results only to the White House, through a CIA "privacy" channel. Sources close to Kelly reveal that McFarlane, in a briefing in Washington, explicitly instructed the ambassador not to discuss the arms-hostages talks with the State Department. McFarlane in public testimony denied giving Kelly any instructions...
...something about dust: `we shall clear it on the land, we shall clear it on the beaches'--well, it'd be difficult to clear it on the beaches....But clear that dust we must. Until at last the dust is atomic, and even then, it must clear, to reveal that one thing we've been really working for. Oh, writer, don't take up your word-processor for the army that creates a room full of clauses and retractions from the simplest of sentences. Not while there is cleaning to be done...
...President does his job, confirming the worst fears of both his friends and his critics. Simultaneously stumbling into the Iran fiasco and allowing a bizarre scam to fund the contras to take place had an impact powerful enough to scar Teflon precisely because the events seemed to reveal personal characteristics that were both fundamental and worrisome...
...heap. Life is cheap. When a murderer escapes from the court building's death row, guards outside spray the facade with bullets so wantonly that everyone dives for the floor. When a prostitute who has befriended the murderer finds herself surrounded by journalists threatening bodily harm to make her reveal his hiding place, she leaps from a window. The reaction that emerges loudest: "If she's killed herself, we'll never get the story...