Word: towers
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...than messages sent by post or by telephone. The magnitude of that error now confronts him in bookstore windows around the country. For not only have hundreds of those potentially incriminating messages been recovered by federal investigators but they also are available to all, in published copies of the Tower commission report...
...colleagues -- were keeping backup tapes of each file in the system, a routine practice. These backups, which are typically made on a daily or weekly basis, included copies of files containing the private notes of every NSC officer with a password. In response to requests from the Tower commission, White House Communications Agency programmers searched their storage tapes for NSC memos and eventually turned over a stack of printouts nearly 4 ft. high. Explains Donn Parker, a computer security specialist at SRI International: "It is so ingrained in computer operators that they have to preserve data that if you tell...
...Oral Roberts was fasting in his Tulsa Prayer Tower, a 200-ft.-tall glass- and-steel spire on the Oral Roberts University campus, and still awaiting this week's life-threatening deadline, despite a surprise stay of execution -- a gift of $1.3 million from Jerry Collins, a short, gruff dog-track owner from Sarasota, Fla. ("It's very seldom I ever go to church," said the philanthropic Collins. "I help them all.") Roberts, feeling perkier after the donation, proclaimed Bakker a "prophet of God," who had been victimized by an "unholy trio of forces," presumably referring to Swaggart, the Assemblies...
Collins remarked to reporters that Roberts "doesn't have to commit hara- kiri now" but allowed that he could probably make do with some "psychiatric treatment." Even though the gift met the divinely ordained total that Roberts had announced, he continued his fast in the Prayer Tower and asked his flock for more cash. Roberts' performance caused Swaggart to lament, "The gospel of Jesus Christ has never sunk to such a level...
Reagan, by his own account, was equally ill informed about how the weapons sales to Iran had "degenerated" (his word) into an arms-for-hostages exchange. Not "until I read the Tower commission report," issued Feb. 26, did he find "that the strategy talks had disappeared completely and . . . the conversation was totally arms for hostages." If so, he must have been one of the last people in the country to come to that realization...