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...week later CIA and State Department representatives met with Iranian contacts in Geneva. The Iranians presented the Americans with a nine-point agenda that they claimed had already been approved by the National Security Council. The plan called for the sale of more TOW antitank weapons and Hawk missile parts to Iran and the release of 17 Muslim terrorists imprisoned in Kuwait in exchange for freedom for the American hostages in Lebanon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Breaking Up Is Hard to Do | 2/2/1987 | See Source »

...Fiasco 400, started sputtering on the highway, so Harry pulled into a gas station for help. "Sorry, no mechanics, only gas!" shouted the attendant. "How can you call this a service station?" yelled Harry. He went to the bank to get some emergency cash for a tow truck, only to find the automatic teller machine out of order, again. "Real nice service!" he muttered. Then Harry decided to use a credit card to buy a tool kit at the Cheapo discount store, but he couldn't find anyone to wait on him. "Service! Anyone, please! Help...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Service: Pul-eeze! Will Somebody Help Me? | 2/2/1987 | See Source »

...American group returned home empty handed. The U.S. later delivered TOW antitank missiles directly to Iran, instead of through Ghorbanifar and Khashoggi as had been done before, and reduced the price from $12,000 to $8,000 each. An angry Rafsanjani called Mousavi to declare, "Your friend Ghorbanifar is a thief." Ghorbanifar, feeling betrayed and threatened by a CIA frame-up, then freed his Iranian associates to leak the news that created the scandal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Double-Dealing Over Iran | 2/2/1987 | See Source »

Stratton is a beautiful-people-only resort. The new village, with the requisite quaint architecture and gourmet shop also boasts clothes boutiques from Bogner and CB sports. It has a certain European flavor; one almost expects fur-clad women to stroll by with their poodles in tow...

Author: By Evan O. Grossman, | Title: Vermont's Best White Powder | 1/23/1987 | See Source »

Public Works Director, Everett R. Kennedy, who made recommendations to Healy after the hearing, said: "Pat's Tow's work for us had been satisfactory, and I saw no reason to cancel the contract...

Author: By Michelle D. Tanenbaum, | Title: Pat's Tow Not Booted By City | 12/9/1986 | See Source »

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