Word: towers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Iran-contra scandal spreads in ever wider circles, a disturbing image of Ronald Reagan is taking shape. Most accounts of Iranscam, notably the damning Tower commission report, depict the President as a woolly-minded, out- of-touch leader who permitted a band of overzealous aides to conduct secret and possibly illegal operations right under his nose. The White House has done little to dispute that characterization, and for good reason: an inattentive Reagan who knew little of the weapons sales to Iran and nothing about the illicit funneling of arms to the Nicaraguan rebels seemed better than a President...
...public manner, and sometimes his personal demeanor, seemed designed to keep secrets. He mumbled and seemed to bumble, and wherever he worked in his dozen years as a top federal official, his desk and even his clothes suggested a mindless disarray. When the Tower commission tried to find out why a memo Casey had written about the Iran-contra affair never reached the White House, his aide's explanation seemed almost plausible: Casey had put it in the wrong...
...major general described for four days how he organized and ran a private network that at the Government's behest secretly supplied arms to the contras in Nicaragua and later to Iran. Much of the story had been told before, most notably in the scathing February report of the Tower commission. But for the first time, the public was hearing it as a consecutive narrative from the lips of a major player -- a very self- confident participant who testified voluntarily, without immunity from prosecution, on the frequently stated conviction that he had done nothing wrong...
...alleged "misunderstanding" of the "rule of law" that Congress plans to probe goes far beyond the unhinged arms-for-hostages deals with Iran and the siphoning of profits to the Nicaraguan contras, which formed the focus of the Tower board's report in February. Instead, a central issue this time will be the role Administration officials played in pursuing a secret and possibly illegal foreign policy by using a shady cadre of private and semiprivate operatives to supply military aid to the contras when such aid was restricted by Congress...
...somebody from an ivory tower setting picking people out of the blue," Ramsey said. Project Life is "oriented around local leaders and a sophisticated self-help model. It relies on acceptance of local leaders," he added. "It's a low-tech, not a high-tech intervention...