Word: tales
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...strands that have been woven together in a bizarre tapestry of intrigue that stretches across two continents and several years. As each day brings fresh revelations about the scheme to skim profits from secret U.S. arms sales to Iran and channel them to the contras in Central America, the tale assumes the drama and sweep of an epic thriller. Some chapters are still murky, and the ending remains to be played out over the next few months, even years, but the story already rivals the most intricate of spy novels...
...note of welcome social progress. After a half-century's domination by Wasps like Mickey and Mighty, the world of animated film is happily invaded by a Jewish mouse. He is named Fievel Mousekewitz, and the tale told by An American Tail is of his arrival on these shores a century ago as an immigrant from czarist Russia...
Fanciful though it was, Rafsanjani's tale ended any U.S. hope of preserving secrecy. Together, he and Al Shiraa had introduced all the main elements of the story: the secret meetings between U.S. and Iranian officials, the arms transfers and the negotiations about the hostages in Lebanon. Al Shiraa did not mention the hostages, but Rafsanjani did. He said that if the U.S. and France met certain conditions, among them the return of frozen Iranian assets and freedom for so-called political prisoners held "in Israel and other parts of the world," then "as a humanitarian gesture we will...
...memoirs, with the stenographic assistance of one Rolf Marcus, an itinerant and blocked American journalist who needs the lodgings that she can provide. Ellen confesses, up front, that she has been known in her none-too-proper prime as La Belle Helene, but as she begins to spin her tale, she could easily be confused with a number of other names, including the Wife of Bath, Fanny Hill, Molly Bloom and Mrs. Malaprop...
...three, his father died, and his mother struggled to support the family. Still, with the help of scholarships, Tim Wirth was able to attend some of the nation's most elite schools: Phillips Exeter Academy, Harvard and Stanford. From that experience, Democrat Wirth has fashioned a political morality tale. He succeeded, he tells campaign crowds, because "government and society" made investments in the future; government and society must continue to do so as a way of "ensuring that everybody has a chance." Increasingly conservative Colorado voters responded by electing liberal Wirth to six terms in the House and, last week...