Word: scandalizes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...provide outside counsel, even his wife. Their essence can be put in one word: act. Fire Chief of Staff Donald Regan or CIA Director William Casey, or both, as proof that the Administration intends to make a fresh start. Call the key figures in the Iran arms-contra funds scandal, Oliver North and John Poindexter, into the Oval Office and demand from them an accounting of their activities. But above all, do something. Don't just wait for inquisitive journalists, congressional investigators or, eventually, an independent counsel to force out all the facts about North's sticky web of arms...
...President, appearing befuddled by the growing scandal that in one bizarre month has poleaxed public confidence in his leadership, seemed willing to listen but not hear. As former aides cloaked themselves in the Fifth Amendment, and new revelations poured forth, Reagan kept repeating that he wanted all the facts to emerge. Yet he did nothing on his own to break open the mysteries. Revealing an insouciance that is the dark side of his charm, he told a friend, "I watch every day like everybody else to find out what will come out. I'm as puzzled and interested as anybody...
...Iranian arms deals and contra fund diversions has yet emerged. The main obstacle: many of the congressional witnesses who could be most enlightening persisted in pleading their right under the Fifth Amendment to refuse to answer questions. North, who was fired from the NSC staff when the scandal broke, and his former boss Poindexter, the National Security Adviser, who resigned at the same time, have repeatedly been identified as prime movers in the whole mess; they reiterated their refusal to testify last week. Others who did the same: Richard Secord, a retired Air Force general who was deeply involved...
...arms to Iran in 1985, but contended he was told little or nothing of the direct U.S. sales this year. Though the President signed an intelligence "finding" authorizing them on Jan. 17, Shultz did not hear about it until November. Shultz did have one bombshell to toss. After the scandal became public, he asked all State Department diplomats throughout the world to report to him what they knew. He read to the committee a cable he received in response from Ambassador Kelly in Beirut. Excerpts: "I met in Washington, in July or August 1986, with Robert McFarlane, who briefed...
...diplomatic eyes were on Shultz. The Secretary's agenda listed a variety of arms-control issues, but he was clearly there to hold European hands and soothe European fears about the stability of American foreign policy in the wake of the Iran-contra arms scandal. "I have a rebuilding job to do," he told reporters. Shultz, who has made his dissent from the Iran policy well known, had the unenviable task of persuading the allies that the investigations have not seriously hampered President Reagan's ability to manage U.S. foreign policy...