Word: statements
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Asked if he might have been told about the diversion but had forgotten, Reagan replied with a vehement no. After the formal session had ended -- but while he was still on television -- Reagan added that Poindexter and North "just didn't tell me what was going on." That flat statement dismayed some advisers, who had suggested that Reagan might want to use a hedge. Said one nervous adviser: "He was warned at least twice, but he said it the way he said...
...time, Jim and Tammy, although sunny on camera, were going through a chilly time offstage. According to some accounts, Evangelist John Wesley Fletcher arranged for Bakker to meet young Jessica Hahn, a secretary for the Full Gospel Tabernacle, a Pentecostal church in Massapequa, N.Y. According to Bakker's official statement in resigning as head of PTL, the brief encounter was a setup: "I was wickedly manipulated by treacherous former friends and then colleagues who victimized me with the aid of a female confederate." One friend, Jamie Buckingham, a well-known charismatic writer, told the Washington Post that Bakker "was very...
...Government's new toughness is at least partly a response to what Washington perceives as a hardening of Tokyo's attitude. Congress was particularly galled last week by the contents of a classified State Department report that revealed a statement by the vice chief of MITI, Makoto Kuroda, to the effect that U.S. supercomputer makers would only be wasting their time trying to sell the advanced machines to Japanese government agencies or universities. His remarks, which he reportedly made in January at a lunch for visiting U.S. trade officials, seemed to betray a lack of sincerity in Japan's repeated...
...found that TIME had erred in its description of a meeting between Sharon and Lebanese leaders prior to the 1982 massacre of Palestinian refugees in the Sabra and Shatila camps in Beirut. The description was defamatory, the jury held, but TIME did not libel Sharon because the magazine's statement was published without knowing or reckless falsity...
Considerable criticism dogged Sofaer's performance as head of the U.S. delegation that traveled to Jerusalem in December 1985, after Jonathan Jay Pollard was charged with spying for Israel. While the State Department issued a statement lauding the Israeli government for its "full cooperation," Justice Department officials on the delegation have charged angrily that they were "misled" by the Israelis. Jerusalem had withheld the name of Pollard's handler, Aviam Sella, and had delivered only 163 documents of the thousands purloined by Pollard. Sella was subsequently indicted in the U.S. on espionage charges, and the Justice Department is now moving...