Word: spares
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...happened. Initially in the perhaps illusory hope of gaining influence with a post-Khomeini government in Iran, but eventually also as an inducement for Iranian help in winning freedom for U.S. hostages held by Muslim zealots in Lebanon, the Reagan Administration approved clandestine shipments of military equipment -- ammunition, spare parts for tanks and jet fighters -- to Iran through Israel...
...resume contacts and strike a deal with the Iranians. The executives turned to Adnan Khashoggi, a famed Saudi Arabian wheeler-dealer and an extremely wealthy businessman. He got a long shopping list from Tehran that included Hawk antiaircraft missiles and radar-guidance equipment for them, antitank missiles, and spare parts for jet fighters...
Reagan confirmed in a nationally broadcast Oval Office address that he engaged in secret diplomacy with Iran for 18 months and, to demonstrate his personal interest, authorized the transfer of "small amounts of defensive weapons and spare parts" to that country...
...nationally broadcast speech, prompted by widespread criticism among Congressional and other government officials, Reagan revealed that he had secretly authorized the transfer of defensive weapons and spare parts to Iran in part to "replace the animosity" between the two countries...
...about the contents of the album than about what happened at the Reykjavik summit. Yes, classics like Born to Run are there, jumping out of a superb audio mix like a Maserati off the mark. But so are Springsteen standards like Thunder Road and No Surrender, performed with newly spare instrumentation, sounding entirely different and stronger than ever. There are tunes Springsteen wrote for other performers that he has never recorded (Fire, Because the Night), as well as songs that he has borrowed from others (This Land Is Your Land, War, Raise Your Hand, Jersey Girl) and refashioned...