Word: witnessers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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For George Shultz, a proud man with a strong sense of what is proper, it was a painful task. Before a national television audience, the Secretary of State described how he and his department had been humiliated, betrayed and ignored, cut out of some of the Reagan Administration's most...
In describing the bungled attempts by the NSC staff, using private citizens in amateurish bargaining to develop a dialogue with Iran and get American hostages released by selling arms to that outlaw nation, Shultz made no effort to conceal his scorn. "Our guys . . . got taken to the cleaners," he said...
Mrs. Archer broke down on the witness stand defending her husband, while Coghlan dissolved into sobs several times. When Archer's lawyer accused her of concocting the tale in exchange for $10,000 from the News, Coghlan burst out, "You are a liar." At one point, after Coghlan testified that...
< An incredulous Liman asked the witness why he did not say, "I, Admiral Poindexter, made the decision and did not tell the President of the United States." Poindexter's lame reply: although he gave the notion "a lot of thought," he waited to consult his attorneys. The result, as Senator...
Those who fear that successful economic reforms would lead Moscow to renew its expansionist policies argue that, despite Gorbachev's rhetoric, the Soviet quest for security is essentially aggressive. The Russian word for security, bezopasnost, translates literally as "absence of danger." Moscow's way of achieving that state has often...