Word: towers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Tower commission, appointed by the president to investigate the Iran-Contra affair, said it found no evidence to dispute Reagan's contention that he had no knowledge of the diversion...
Except for a year he spent travelling in Franceon a Tower Fellowship after his graduation andsabbaticals from his various deanships, Jewett haslived and worked at Harvard continuously since hemoved into the fifth floor of Matthews Hall as afreshman in 1953. While an undergraduate, hehelped pay his tuition, according to theregulations of his financial aid package, andworked 10 to 15 hours a week on dorm crew.Eventually, he became a dorm crew student captain...
...this week's issue, Church wrote the lead story in our discussion of the Tower commission's findings. It is his 77th cover story in 18 years at TIME. "The Iran-contra affair is more sustained than any previous news event I've been involved in," says Church. "This will be the fifth cover related to the controversy that I've done in four months." In terms of writing, it presents a growing problem. "There is by now a very long and complicated public record that you must cite to put the new developments in context," says Church. "The question...
...through a thicket of reporters and TV cameramen to stuff a pile of commission reports into knapsacks as soon as the copies were released at the White House Press Office on Thursday morning. Meanwhile, Correspondents Barrett Seaman and David Beckwith prepared to analyze the 288-page report as the Tower commission press conference unfolded. National Political Correspondent Laurence Barrett tracked Nancy Reagan's conflict with Donald Regan. Correspondents Hays Gorey and Michael Duffy scoured Congress for reactions. Pentagon Correspondent Bruce van Voorst investigated CIA involvement. And Correspondents Alessandra Stanley and Ricardo Chavira concentrated on Lieut. Colonel Oliver North...
...when it came, was brutally abrupt for Donald T. Regan. Sitting in his office Friday afternoon, the chief of staff pronounced himself vindicated by the Tower report: "1,250 lines on 'What Was Wrong' and I'm mentioned in 15, less than 2%," he declared. He confided to TIME Correspondents David Beckwith and Barrett Seaman that he planned to resign Monday, on his own schedule. But he was clearly unsettled. No, he didn't know who his successor would be, and no, he hadn't been invited to a Reagan summit that night to discuss presidential strategy...