Word: sales
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...promises were made on aid beyond that and Dodd and others said there likely will be many more votes against further assistance, especially in light of the Iran-Contra turmoil involving the sale of arms to Iran and the purported diversion of profits to the Contras...
...shipment of 18 U.S.-made Hawk antiaircraft missiles to Iran in November 1985. The Iranians were furious because the missiles carried Israeli insignia. They demanded that the weapons be sent back to Israel. Again, the President's memory is cloudy on whether he gave an O.K. to the sale. At first he told the board he had objected, and that is why the shipment was returned. Later he said he and Regan had agreed that "they cannot remember any meeting or conversation about a Hawk shipment...
...January of 1986, North was back in business after the President signed an intelligence finding authorizing the sale of weapons to Iran. North concocted an elaborate "notional timeline" (which included his belief that the Ayatullah would step down in 1986) for what he called "Operation Recovery." The plan reveals the Marine officer's talent for military logistics and his naivete about geopolitics. For a month North had planes, missiles and money hopscotching all over the globe to deliver weapons to supposedly moderate elements in Iran in order to bring about the release of the American hostages. Although Iran received...
...bought the headquarters buildings of the three firms. In a new twist on the protectionist slogan "Buy American," Japanese firms are literally buying America, or at least choice pieces of it, from New York City high-rises to beachfront hotels in Hawaii. Eager as customers at a close-out sale, these investors from the Far East snapped up as much as $6 billion worth of U.S. real estate last year, more than four times the 1985 level, and they have only begun to shop...
...even Uncle Sam himself are, to put it bluntly, in hock as never before in history. Time' s Board of Economists warns that the debts, while still manageable, threaten the economy and the future welfare of every American. -- Pan Am, desperately seeking survival, considers putting its shuttle up for sale. -- London' s messy stock- trading scandal...