Word: unravels
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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According to North, Casey also thought up the "fall guy plan," in which the ever loyal Marine would take the "hit" if any of the many secret operations were exposed, thus protecting higher officials -- especially the President. When the Iran-contra scam did unravel, the trail led quickly to North. A private U.S. aircraft carrying supplies to the contras was shot down over Nicaragua last Oct. 5, and the downed airmen were carrying telephone numbers that linked them with Robert Owen, North's personal courier to the contras. Two days later Casey learned that angry middlemen in the Iran arms...
...limit their questioning of the Marine lieutenant colonel, at least initially, to four 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...
Over the next three or so months, the congressional committee investigating the Iran-contra affair will hear from 35 to 50 witnesses as it struggles to unravel the worst foreign policy scandal of the decade. Major congressional hearings are never predictable; during Watergate a minor witness revealed the White House taping system. As the hearings open, these are the key witnesses...
...Knight had it all: an Olympic gold medal, two N.C.A.A. championships and an NIT crown. Then came the 1984-85 season. His basketball team, the Indiana Hoosiers, played under .500 in Big Ten competition for the first time in his 14-year reign as coach. Knight began to unravel. He benched his starters, dismissed his leading rebounder and, in a nationally televised game, he flung a chair across the court to protest the officiating. John Feinstein, a canny Washington Post columnist, focuses on the following season, when Knight veered even closer to the edge. Feinstein has no quarrel with...
...take long for the agreement to unravel. Barely two days after the 60-day cease-fire lapsed, heavy fighting erupted in Lupao, a village 90 miles north of Manila. Eighteen people, among them twelve civilians, died in an early morning fire fight between an army patrol and a band of heavily armed Communist insurgents. Witnesses later charged that seven civilians had been massacred by government troops during the clash. By week's end, the unofficial death toll had grown to more than 70, including 41 civilians. With each new report of violence, any hope of reconciliation between the rebels...