Word: scandalizes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While sympathetic to Shultz's mission, European leaders were still indignant about "Iranscam" and skeptical that Reagan will be able to put the scandal quickly behind him. Just before Shultz arrived, a senior British official privately complained that he was "dismayed and disappointed" at the U.S.'s departure from its stated refusal to negotiate with terrorists. The conclusion that U.S. foreign policy will be affected, declared NATO Secretary- General Lord Carrington, should occur to "anybody who reads the newspapers about what is happening in Washington...
...response to a Sandinista attack on Honduran outposts in which three Honduran soldiers were injured and two taken prisoner. Under different circumstances, Azcona might have overlooked the Nicaraguan indiscretion, just as he has ignored more than 60 other Sandinista incursions this year alone. But with the Iran-contra scandal swirling in Washington, the Honduran President was plainly seeking reassurance from the White House. His appeal for U.S. help seemed designed to gauge whether the arms scandal had shaken the Reagan Administration's support for the rebels. More important, it tested U.S. resolve to come to the aid of cooperative allies...
Some Reagan Administration officials predict that the contra program will not be irremediably damaged by the current scandal. They observe that there is no movement afoot at present to halt payment of the remaining $40 million in U.S. aid. "I think when this is all over, Congress will still be willing to back the program," Elliott Abrams said earlier this month. "We have a huge national interest in promoting democracy there." Oklahoma Republican Mickey Edwards pressed the point further in a Washington Post op-ed piece. The Congressman exhorted his legislative brethren to remember that they had approved contra...
...board expects the slow progress in making budget cuts to continue next year. The deficit in fiscal 1987, which ends next October, will probably ease to $190 billion -- still well above the $144 billion target established by the Gramm-Rudman deficit-reduction law. The economists believe the Iran-contra scandal, among other issues, could distract congressional attention from the job of slashing the fiscal 1988 budget...
Shearson has been cooperating with the probe since May. After the subpoenas were disclosed, Cohen insisted that no one at his firm was guilty of improprieties. He also stressed that the investigation had no connection with the insider-trading scandal involving Boesky and Dennis Levine. Said he: "The Government has assured us the subpoenas we have received have nothing to do with Boeskygate, Levinegate or any other gate...