Word: witnesse
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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At that moment, on the left side of the television screen, another Marine, Oliver North, leaned forward in the witness chair in the Senate Caucus Room, listening, his eyes gone now from disingenuous to wounded, then brightening to a righteous glint.
Who will prove to be the most important witness the Iran-contra committees hear? No, not Oliver North -- at least not according to Warren Rudman, vice chairman of the Senate panel. After listening to North for four days last week, the New Hampshire Republican repeated a longstanding prediction: the crucial...
North's persistence in declaring that "I was authorized to do everything that I did" creates obvious questions for Poindexter, who will follow him to the witness table. Did Poindexter just spike all diversion memos and let North proceed on his own? Poindexter's public testimony, predicts a congressional source...
The bravura performance drew a flood of flowers and yellow telegrams that swept to Capitol Hill in support of the man who starred at his own show trial. The "Olliegrams" were stacked on the witness table, as though shielding the colonel from any hostile questions. Jumping on the Ollie bandwagon...
Indeed, it is unlikely that any investigator this week will even pose in so many words some of the numerous questions raised by North's career on the NSC. The committees, to be sure, are prepared to give their star witness a tough, at times caustic, grilling. But their investigation...