Word: tracked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...More legwork is required in reporting major scandals than in any other type of reporting," says Congressional Correspondent Hays Gorey, who recalls wearing out a few pairs of shoes covering Watergate. "Sources are so few and reporters so many that dozens of calls are never returned. You have to track sources to restaurants, to their homes, even board planes to get interviews...
...Olympic Games finalist in track and field, I find Jesse Jackson's threat to call for a U.S. boycott in 1988 because of human rights violations in South Korea to be the ultimate hypocrisy. Haven't politicians learned that boycotts do not change the governmental policies of the host nations? Human rights in South Korea may be an important issue, but the U.S. should use a medium other than the Olympics to make a statement about violations of those rights...
...would be a sad denouement to a once sparkling career. Before his appointment to the NSC, Poindexter was considered the model of the fast-track Navy officer. His superiors seem to have marked him early as a potential Chief of Naval Operations -- a position that was long thought to be Poindexter's own goal -- and to have carefully groomed him for the job through a judiciously chosen mixture of Washington assignments and sea-duty posts...
...days. Yet ten times four days would scarcely suffice to explore every secret scheme in which North is said to have put his finger during his five years on the National Security Council staff, to unravel all the private networks he hammered together to carry out secret policies, to track down the sources of the authority that enabled him to order around Ambassadors, CIA agents and Government officials who outranked...
...childhood days, North's sensibility was molded by patriotism and devoutness. From Viet Nam on, he saw himself as a soldier in the holy war against Communism. Yet somewhere along the line, this man whose earnest, blue- eyed features were the stuff of Marine recruiting posters went off track. He came to see every bureaucratic squabble as a battle between good and evil, and his passionate intensity began to melt his judgment. He was a man whose zealotry served his country better in war than in peace. As in Greek tragedy, the same characteristics that catapulted North to great heights...