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...closed-door testimony to the House Foreign Affairs Committee -- which promptly leaked -- Casey disclosed that Furmark had indeed warned him that there were irregularities involving the profits from the Iranian arms deals. Casey got this tip on Oct. 7, more than a month before the contra diversions were publicly revealed by Meese. Casey promptly took the information to Poindexter and, one of his aides says, suggested that "he get himself a lawyer...
...boxer and a decorated World War II bomber pilot, retreat under fire on the tax issue. "I have not called for a tax increase," he said. "I have suggested postponing any further tax decreases for the very wealthiest taxpayers." Says Christopher Matthews, a former aide to Wright's predecessor Tip O'Neill: "Wright is going to be feisty, and I'll bet you'll see him get off to a real fast start...
Cartoonists will undoubtedly have fun with Wright's distinctively bushy eyebrows and sharp features, but not nearly as much as they had with Tip's nose and sheer bulk. The two leaders' personal styles are as different as their physical attributes. While the bluff O'Neill could growl out a rough response to Republican policy, Wright has a well-earned reputation as the House's foremost debater, and Reagan is already feeling the sting of his remarks. "Harry Truman said the buck stops here," he said in a speech last week, "but Ronald Reagan says put it on a credit...
...comic ever to win the Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning. Spin-offs have been ubiquitous: more than 30 books, an NBC-TV special, a rock album and a Broadway musical, all written by Trudeau. His jabs have provoked outrage from targets as varied as Frank Sinatra and House Speaker Tip O'Neill. Yet with just a handful of exceptions over the years -- mostly college speeches and prepared statements for charities -- Trudeau has steadfastly refused to engage in public give-and-take, to comment outside the strip on politics or, for that matter, to give interviews...
What is driving me up the wall is that this wasn't a failure until the press got a tip from that rag in Beirut and began to play it up. I told them that publicity could destroy this, that it could get people killed. They then went right...