Word: scandalizes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dizzyingly prosperous in the Reagan era, has suddenly fallen on leaner times. Faced with a $3 million shortfall in its $38 million annual budget, the committee last week laid off 40 of its 275 employees. Donations are down, say G.O.P. fund raisers, as a result of the Iran-contra scandal, disappointment with the Republican loss of the Senate last fall, and too many aspiring presidential candidates trolling for money from the same supporters...
From the start, Reagan has insisted he did not know of any diversion plans, making it the litmus test of his credibility in separating himself from the scandal. The White House was unmoved by North's claim that he wrote five diversion memos; only the one found on Nov. 22 has turned up among the 250,000 documents the White House released to the congressional committees. Even if other versions exist, says one aide, so what? "There's nothing that says the President saw them...
...bursts of candor, North pulled other officials more deeply into the scandal. "I'm not trying to pass the buck here, O.K.?" North declared angrily. "I did a lot of things and I want to stand up and say that I'm proud of them." But he denied acting alone as a "loose cannon . . . People used to walk up to me and tell me what a great job I was doing." Among them, he declared, was Secretary of State George Shultz, who opposed the Iran deals but, claimed North, "knew in sufficiently eloquent terms what I had done...
After the scandal broke, North said he assured Poindexter that he had destroyed all memos relating to the diversion. (One survived...
...millions of travelers take to the air during the peak summer travel season, the Government is recording a surging number of consumer complaints, delayed flights, near midair collisions and air- traffic- control errors. The airlines are scrambling to improve conditions in the hope of easing growing indignation in Congress. -- Scandal dethrones the ZZZZ Best carpet- cleaning king...