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...Klevers were among some 50 disillusioned emigres who last week returned from the U.S. to the Soviet Union. Some spoke earnestly of homesickness. Others denounced capitalist competition, crime in the streets and public and private corruption. Most seemed eager to swap the hazards of American freedom for the gray certitudes of Soviet life. "I was afraid to go out in the street after 4 in the afternoon," said Rebecca Katsap, 67, who was headed for Odessa from New York City. "I kiss my native soil with happiness. Eight years of life in a strange land are behind...
...July 8 speech, was listing Iran as being first among a "confederation of terrorist states." In mid-July McFarlane, accompanied by Shultz, broached Kimche's ideas to Reagan in Bethesda Naval Hospital, where the President was recuperating from colon surgery. Reagan saw the dangers of an arms-for-hostages swap, but also appreciated the value of new contact with Iran. He bought the idea that arms shipments would be intended to strengthen a group that might eventually be able to wean Iran away from support of terrorism. McFarlane called Kimche in Israel to say the U.S. was interested in seeing...
Iranian Arms Dealer Manucher Ghorbanifar contacts former CIA Officer Theodore Shackley in West Germany, according to the New York Times. Ghorbanifar proposes selling U.S. arms to Iran as a swap for hostages in Lebanon. Shackley passes the proposal to U.S. officials...
FIRST IT WAS the prisoner swap that wasn't a swap. Then it was the hostage ransom that wasn't ransom. And now we may have the nuclear defense that isn't a defense...
...When you give lousy advice, you get lousy results." McFarlane then issued a statement conceding in effect that he had eventually gone along with the arms sales in the belief that they were needed "to strengthen reform-oriented Iranians," but that the public saw them as part of a swap for hostages. Said McFarlane: "As a senior adviser to the President, I should have anticipated this potential outcome. The failure to do so represents a serious error in judgment...