Word: scandalizes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bits and pieces of the Iran-contra scandal that have slowly leaked out have presented an unsettling image of Ronald Reagan's closest advisers: scheming, overreaching aides deliberately misleading one another while keeping an already out-of-touch President in the dark about their secret operations. That impression was reinforced last week with the release of a Senate Intelligence Committee report based on three weeks of hearings the panel held last December...
...Poindexter and retired Air Force Major General Richard Secord, whom the panel identifies as a principal conduit of supplies to the contras -- exercised their Fifth Amendment rights and refused to testify. Nevertheless, the report will serve as an essential point of reference for the congressional select committees investigating the scandal...
...petty turf battle within the CIA turned a potential opening to Iran into a misbegotten arms-for-hostages deal that fell apart because of the squabbling and led to disclosure of the Iran-contra scandal. That is the contention of one of the factions that are still feuding hotly over the foreign policy disaster. As reports circulated about the imminent retirement of CIA Director William Casey, who is suffering from brain cancer, the agency itself is agonizing over its handling of the Iran initiative...
...been done before, and reduced the price from $12,000 to $8,000 each. An angry Rafsanjani called Mousavi to declare, "Your friend Ghorbanifar is a thief." Ghorbanifar, feeling betrayed and threatened by a CIA frame-up, then freed his Iranian associates to leak the news that created the scandal...
Veterans of the '60s march again as racial hostility in the U. S. seems to be increasing. -- A petty turf battle within the CIA may have triggered the Iran arms- for- hostages scandal. -- Congress and the White House gear up to put a new trade law on the books. -- A TIME correspondent lives on the streets of Philadelphia to report on the agony of the homeless...