Word: secretes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...former national security adviser to Reagansaid recently he had hoped that his secret missionto Tehran would result in the release of Americanhostages held in Lebanon by pro-Iranian extremists
Casting a lengthening shadow over all the frenzied activity was the crippling embarrassment of U.S. arms sales to Iran. Since last November, when the secret deals first became known, counterterrorist experts have been worried that the transactions could spur more hostage taking. They reasoned % that the weapons sales, aimed partly at securing Iran's help in winning freedom for kidnaped Americans in Lebanon, would be seen as capitulation to terrorist demands...
...arms deals last week claimed a victim of a different sort. In Los Angeles, Triad America Corp., a cornerstone of the U.S. business empire of Saudi Arms Dealer Adnan Khashoggi, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. Khashoggi lost millions of dollars in the secret weapons sales...
...nation that stands up to terrorism has already been done. "It's going to be hard to make this stick after the Iran thing," conceded a senior U.S. diplomat. Indeed, the disappearance of Waite may have provided evidence of that. In the aftermath of the scandal over secret U.S. arms sales % in exchange for hostages, the temptation to seize and hold the Anglican envoy as a bargaining chip may have been too great for terrorists to resist...
...held in barbaric captivity." Six sentences later, with no apparent awareness of inconsistency, he pledged that the U.S. will never "yield to terrorist blackmail." It was not so much the lack of an "apology" that was disconcerting; it was the lack of any sense that he understood why a secret scheme to trade arms for hostages was a mistake, and one that he had made...