Word: transfering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bigger advance sales than Cats, Les Miserables or the current hottest ticket, Phantom of the Opera, according to Cameron Mackintosh, who produced them all. If it thrives, he envisions raising $8 million to "help bring Follies back to Broadway, which created the traditions it celebrates" -- a rare reverse transfer that would be welcome and yet, for Americans, a little humbling...
Poindexter said he cautioned North against putting any information about contra support on paper. Nevertheless, North testified that he sent Poindexter five memorandums, each outlining the details of a specific transfer of arms proceeds to the contras. Each paper recommended briefing the President and seeking his approval of the transaction. North said he never knew if Reagan saw the memos, but he shredded all his copies of the documents when he learned that the arms deals might come to light. One memo, however, escaped the shredder and was discovered by investigators from the Justice Department...
...admiral could remember seeing the infamous diversion memo at all was when Meese directly confronted him with it last Nov. 24. Poindexter said he promptly offered to resign; on the following day the Attorney General instructed him to do so. Strangely, however, Meese never asked Poindexter who approved the transfer of arms profits to the contras. Nor did White House Chief of Staff Donald Regan question Poindexter about the diversion...
...Attorney General asserts that he first learned about the transfer of profits from the Iran arms sales to the contras in November 1986, after a memo mentioning the diversion was discovered in North's office...
...signed treaties with Panama in 1977 that provide for the canal to be handed over in 1999, Americans have been leaving at a steady clip. In 1979, when the treaties went into effect, there were 2,455 Americans on a payroll that had already been cut sharply by the transfer of schools and other responsibilities to the U.S. Army. Now there are fewer than 1,200 U.S. citizens employed by the commission. This year, and every year until the handover, about 100 more will pack their bags. By the year 2000 only a tiny handful will remain. Most departing Americans...