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...came back into the picture in April, when his successor Poindexter phoned him to suggest a mission to Tehran. Poindexter believed the U.S. had an agreement for the release of all remaining hostages. On May 28, after his CIA briefing, McFarlane, along with North, NSC Middle East Specialist Howard Teicher and George Cave, former CIA deputy station chief in Tehran, flew to Iran. As soon as he arrived in Tehran, McFarlane phoned Washington and learned that no hostages had been released. Things went downhill from there. During three days of talks the American quartet met only officials who appeared...
...Senate panel also was unsuccessful in efforts to question another witness, Howard Teicher, senior director of the National Security Council for political-military affairs, who claimed he needed more time to find a private attorney. Teicher's testimony was delayed until Tuesday...
Like North, the rest of the cowboys tend to be hard-line conservatives who crave adventure and seem to generate controversy. Howard Teicher, 35, a respected expert on the Middle East, recently emerged as a source of a Washington disinformation campaign designed to suggest, among other things, that the U.S. was planning military moves against Libya. The Administration caused a furor last month when it admitted that the reports were false...
...Teicher, who speaks fluent Hebrew, caused another flap five years ago when he tried to publish a fictionalized account of Israel's nuclear secrets. The manuscript was confiscated by the Israeli military censor, and Teicher did not seek to publish it elsewhere...
They say that they have no regrets about deserting the classics. Still, when they are on the road, they like to get to the concert hall a little early. Then in an empty auditorium, Ferrante and Teicher play Bach and Brahms as if they were hungry again...