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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Michael Duffy scoured Congress for reactions. Pentagon Correspondent Bruce van Voorst investigated CIA involvement. And Correspondents Alessandra Stanley and Ricardo Chavira concentrated on Lieut. Colonel Oliver North and the contra connection. "With all the details required for my stories," says Church from his New York City office, "I often wonder how the bureau ever manages to come up with the stuff we need." Then he grins. "But, you know, they always...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From the Publisher: Mar. 9, 1987 | 3/9/1987 | See Source »

...wonder that Lieut. Colonel North did not have the time or inclination to linger over literary style. For as the Tower report voluminously documents by reprinting those memos, North was operating as a reckless and overburdened free agent of the NSC. During 1985 and '86 he simultaneously conducted a tense and frustrating series of arms-hostages negotiations with Iran and coordinated a supply line for the contras in Nicaragua. Like the ringleader of a vast, secret circus, North masterminded an elaborate network of boats and planes, along with not-for-profit corporations and Swiss bank accounts to help...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Oliver North's Blank Check | 3/9/1987 | See Source »

...commanders. To judge from history, armed conflict has been humanity's favorite pastime, using everything imaginable: primitive wooden spears, bronze swords and shields, grenade launchers, cutting remarks, Agent Orange, frying pans and other domestic appliances, and tiny atoms which go boom in a big way. Yet one has to wonder why, if war is to be conceived as an unpleasant phenomenon, we humans spend so much time and effort thinking up excuses to get embroiled...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Front Line: Hollywood | 3/5/1987 | See Source »

Hannam questions the commitment of organizations, such as the World Bank and the Harvard Institute of International Development which are supposedly attempting to solve development dilemmas. "I wonder if these development officials are really devoted," he says. "They come to developing countries and stay at the best hotel, are waited on, and chauffeured around. They live like little princes." He adds, "How can these people understand the poor when they have a passport for exit...

Author: By Eugenia Balodimas, | Title: Summer Thesis Research: It's Not Just a CFIA Grant, It's an Adventure | 3/2/1987 | See Source »

...toilette finished, our man has transformed himself from a work-stained Charlie Manson into a square-jawed yuppie with a crinkly smile that could sell miles and miles of Kodak film. Whistling cheerfully, he cruises downstairs past a wall smeared with bloody handprints. Tension and soundtrack build as we wonder just what our cheerful quick-change artist is up to. Then, smiling wistfully, he pauses to pick up a child's toy. The camera follows him down, and there, sprawled messily across the living room, lies his butchered family...

Author: By John P. Thompson, | Title: SCREEN | 2/26/1987 | See Source »

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