Word: seeks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...document captures the essence of Nixon's exercise in discreet diplomacy. It shows him trying to persuade Gorbachev that he can do business with Reagan precisely because Reagan is a conservative. And then, in reporting on the meeting, it shows him trying to persuade the President that he should seek a major strategic arms deal, which Nixon implied could be achieved with only minor concessions on Reagan's cherished Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), the Star Wars antimissile program...
Walsh has been presenting witnesses to a grand jury at a stepped-up pace of three times a week. One of the witnesses last week was Attorney General Edwin Meese, who is sharply criticized in the report for failing to seek advice before telling the President that he could legally sell arms to Iran without informing Congress. Meese testified that he relied on an opinion written in 1981 by former Attorney General William French Smith. But the report points out that Smith had advised that Congress would have to be notified once arms shipments were under way. Said the report...
...remained. He was not alone. Robert Lowell's closest friends and fellow poets, Randall Jarrell, John Berryman and Theodore Roethke, were also emotionally retarded. The poets, observes Jeffrey Meyers, "felt they should seek suffering rather than happiness . . . All four poets obsessively pursued their private myths, and persuaded each other and the public to believe them." Eventually, an inability to grow damaged the quartet beyond repair...
This week the group may feel more pressure, since the deadline arrives Friday. Congress could seek an extension of the Gramm-Rudman date, but that would be risky unless the group produces a compromise plan beforehand. Reason: the delay might send a strong signal to the financial markets that Washington is truly incapable of making tough decisions...
...Utah Senator Orrin Hatch's words, "too political." Claims Henry Hyde, the fiercely partisan Illinois Congressman: "The majority report is polemical in the extreme. It is impossible to sign." He argues that the report ignores what he believes was the true intent of the arms deals: to seek better relations with Iran. The majority report, in fact, cites various pieces of evidence to refute this theory, most notably Reagan's original 1985 "finding" (it was destroyed by Poindexter, but a copy was retained in CIA files) that describes a clear arms-for-hostages rationale for dealing with Iran...