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...watches Donald Duck movies," he prided himself on his ability to deal with revolutionaries, saying he could talk their language. He apparently also spoke the language of the President, who last week described him to TIME as "an American hero." North claimed to be in that select company of White House aides who could call the President directly...
Meese chose a select team of three assistants, including Charles Cooper, who assembled and read documents Friday night. On Saturday they began their questioning. The Attorney General called on Secretary of State George Shultz at home and talked with Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger and CIA Director Casey as well. Other investigators questioned Poindexter and his predecessor, Robert McFarlane, who had begun the contacts with Iran. Meese's assistants pored over North's papers in his office from early Saturday morning until late into the evening, then summoned North to Meese's office in the Justice Department on Sunday...
Twenty-three years after the fatal shots rang out in Dallas, questions about the assassination of John F. Kennedy still reverberate. The 1964 Warren Report concluded that Lee Harvey Oswald, acting alone, shot the President from the Texas School Book Depository. But 15 years later, the House Select Committee on Assassinations, while agreeing that Oswald was the murderer, decided he was most probably part of a conspiracy. Though some of the evidence leading to that finding has been discredited, conspiracy theories continue to proliferate, tracing the crime to everything from a Mafia cabal...
During Frazier's leave of absence, the non-profit hospital's search committee did not select a permanent director. Frazier will serve as psychiatrist-in-chief until a permanent director is chosen, said McLean General Director Francis deMarneffe...
...Economics of Disaster: An introduction into the wonders of insider information, the course would examine the mechanics of the first-aid market, offer detailed models of how small third-world countries select first-aid manufacturers with special attention on how to befriend the Health Minister...