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...Like Webster's Dictionary, we're Morocco bound." That lyric, warbled by Hope and Crosby as they jounced along one of their more amiable roads back in 1942, is outrageous enough to have been penned by Rogers and Clarke, the comically dreadful songwriting team played by Warren Beatty and Dustin Hoffman in Ishtar. The two pictures share similarities besides their North African setting: agreeably low-keyed playing by their stars, a plot that involves them dangerously in local politics, and about the same quota of gags. There is one important difference: Ishtar cost roughly 40 times as much as Road...
Before that setback, however, Zadeh was quite a convincing con man: he stung one of North's associates for $250,000, and the colonel himself interceded with the FBI on his behalf in July 1985. The bizarre incident, which outgoing FBI Director William Webster disclosed to the Senate Intelligence Committee last week, offers yet another example of North's overreaching, amateurish operations. More significantly, it indicates that North told Reagan at least once of his efforts to raise money for the contras, despite the official ban on U.S. Government aid to the Nicaraguan rebels...
Perot then took his case to George Bush. The Vice President's office has confirmed that Perot raised "what he considered to be evidence of wrongdoing" by Armitage. Bush told Perot to go to the "proper authorities." So the billionaire called on FBI Director William Webster. Perot has also made at least one visit to the White House carrying a pile of documents. Yet he has received no support from the Reagan Administration. In fact, National Security Adviser Frank Carlucci in January called him in to ask him to stop pursuing Armitage, whom Carlucci regards as one of the most...
...Thornburgh accepted the FBI post he would have succeeded William Webster, whom Reagan nominated in March to head the Central Intelligence Agency. Webster gained the Senate Intelligence Committee's unanimous endorsement for the Central Intelligenceposition yesterday...
...Like the Webster nomination, the choice ofThornburgh for the FBI was viewed as an effort bythe Administration to avoid confrontation withCongress at a time the fallout of the Iran-Contraaffair mires relations between the branches