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These revelations caused congressional Democrats to question Reagan's motives in the spending cuts. Said Representative Barney Frank of Massachusetts: "If this was a budget decision, then I'm Lady Diana Spencer." Added Congressman Thomas Lantos of California: "Calling this a budget decision is a smokescreen. It's a policy change based on the Administration's relationship with the oil companies." Responding just as vehemently, Energy Secretary James Edwards insisted that the prosecutions would proceed even under the new budget. Said he: "By God, there'll be no amnesty." Meanwhile, the oil companies sit silently...
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...present government of El Salvador has land reform as a smokescreen, but really it's an excuse for going into the countryside and killing peasants and leaders of the revolutionary front," Raskin said...
Defense Attorney John Lowe claimed that Garwood was driven insane by Vietnamese torture and eventually came to identify with his captors. Countered the chief prosecutor, Major Werner Hellmer: "We are not dealing here with insanity, but with a smokescreen...
...forces had achieved no major victory in their invasion of Iran along a 500-mile front from the Iranian border town of Qasr-e-Shirin in the north to the port of Khorramshahr in the south. The Iraqi proposal for a "unilateral ceasefire" appeared to have been merely a smokescreen to cover the fact that its forces were making limited progress toward their objectives. Baghdad's battle plan apparently called for the seizure of key cities in Iran's oil-rich Khuzistan province, which has a large Arab minority. The cities would have been held for ransom against...