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...letter to presidential candidates asking for personal documents, plus access to psychiatric records and FBI files, Frankel issued a memo saying the request had gone "too far." A few days later Frankel sent a memo chastising the bureau for "lassitude" in following up Washington Post scoops. Admitted a Times staffer: "Let's face it, we were getting clobbered on the Iran-contra story...
...news media picked up the story immediately, and the term "Olliemania" was coined. The telegrams served to provide North with something his medals proved incapable of. The telegrams gave the National Security Council staffer, who was in charge of much of the Iran-contra affair, a measure of invincibility. To challenge North was to challenge all those telegrams. North seemed to have the voice of the people on his side...
...earnest baby blues was everywhere last week. His face flickered in dizzying multiplicity on banks of TVs at every department store, as well as in bars and restaurants and millions of homes. While North was not exactly an overnight sensation, he completed his transformation from rather notorious White House staffer to full-fledged American icon...
...Falwell renege? He freely admitted changing his mind as the scandal continued to unfold. Falwell charged that he has since learned that on the day in 1980 in Florida when, according to Hahn, Bakker and his companion, Evangelist John Wesley Fletcher, had intercourse with her, a PTL staffer then attempted to do the same, and Bakker later asked the third man, "Did you get her too?" Said Falwell: "That made my blood boil." Falwell-installed auditors subsequently discovered that the $265,000 in hush money had been siphoned from PTL accounts through a false billing...
Senate Select Committee Chairman Daniel Inouye has one. So does Independent Counsel Lawrence Walsh. So, too, does just about every journalist, congressional staffer and attorney investigating the labyrinthine intricacies of the Iran-contra scandal. Known simply as the Chron, the 678-page paperback (Warner Books; $5.95) has become the ultimate viewer's guide to the hearings...