Word: secret
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hotel, the jurors were brought to the federal courthouse in a van and taken to an small room only a few feet away from the courtroom where they had listened to testimony for eight weeks. Their room was further crowded with hundreds of exhibits, some still classified as top secret. A U.S. marshal guarded the door...
...shouldn't North have thrown papers away, he asked, when they referred to the secret operations of the government...
...charges focus on an alleged attempt to cover up various aspects of a secret Reagan Administration operation to aid the Nicaraguan rebels...
Also promising but in need of a further draft or two is Crews' Blood Issue, an old-fashioned play of a family gathering leading to late-night revelation. The secret is tame by current standards: a man who feared his blood was tainted asked his best friend to sire his children. But the real problem is that the central character, who is a writer and who presumably stands in for the author, is almost devoid of particularity: his only trait is drunkenness. On the plus side were pungent dialogue, believable family conflict and forgiveness, and deft performances by Anne Pitoniak...
When he was Vice President, Bush personally assured Honduras that it would be ! well rewarded for its role in a secret U.S. plan to keep the Nicaraguan rebels supplied. -- Hugh Sidey on the incredible shrinking presidency. -- Racial bloc voting prevails in Chicago's mayoral election, but in Virginia the pattern may be broken. -- The strange exile of a terrorist target...