Word: toweringly
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...panelists, which included a member of the current and past three administrations, said that Reagan will face two key policy decisions in the next week, his speech on the Tower Commission report which is scheduled for tomorrow and the appointment of a new CIA head...
...TOWER COMMISSION Report does not criticize President Reagan or his foreign policy apparatus nearly as much as the Majority Opinion suggests. In fact, the report accurately places most of the blame on the inadequacies of Reagan's advisers...
...three members of the commission -- Tower, former National Security Adviser Brent Scowcroft and former Secretary of State Edmund Muskie -- called on McFarlane last Thursday in Bethesda Naval Hospital. McFarlane has been confined there since Feb. 9, after he attempted suicide by swallowing an overdose of Valium. The session in a conference room adjoining the presidential suite was stilted: the four men know each other well, but they took pains to speak formally as investigators and witness. McFarlane addressed Tower as "Senator" and Muskie as "Mr. Secretary...
After the Libyan allegations broke, Pennsylvania Republican Arlen Specter said Gates' confirmation "is no longer a shoo-in." The committee had already put off a vote until at least next week, in case the Tower commission disclosed something new about Gates' role in Iranscam. There is still some ambiguity about that role. Two sources told TIME last week that Gates helped piece together the Ollie chronology. The CIA vehemently denies it. In fact, one official says Gates visited North's office late last November to demand that North admit he lied about one point...
When Reagan appointed the Tower commission in late November, it seemed likely that the panel would produce little more than a management consultant's dry analysis of the NSC. But armed with the President's authority to question anybody about anything, the three members took it on themselves to conduct the most sweeping investigation yet of the whole affair. They have questioned 58 witnesses, including several no other body had heard from -- Reagan, for one, as well as Manucher Ghorbanifar and Adnan Khashoggi, the two leading middlemen in the Iranian deals. The commission has prepared its own chronology...