Word: claire
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Harvard Film Archive. Entr'acte/Intermission. Directed by Rene Clair. One of the first films in which the images and events do not follow a narrative continuity, but are related on the principles of the unconscious works. A Page of Madness/Kurutta Ippeiji. Directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa. Depicts the inner world of insane people, confined in a lunatic asylum. Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, 7:30 p.m. $4 for students and seniors; $5 for general admission...
...years and $30 million, Iran-contra prosecutor Lawrence Walsh is calling it a day. He announced that after eight guilty pleas and convictions, he will present no more cases to the grand jury. Walsh still plans to prosecute former Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger and ex-CIA spy chief Clair George. But barring unforeseen evidence, the rest are off the hook...
They had not. George's mentor, former Director William Casey, was legendary for his utter contempt of Congress. The same attitude was expressed by former senior CIA officer Ray Cline, who complained after George's indictment last fall that "the only thing Clair has ever been accused of is lying to Congress." In the eyes of some agency veterans, Alan Fiers, chief of CIA's Central American Task Force, who admitted his own guilt in lying to Congress, was a "turncoat" for testifying against George; current spy chief Thomas Twetten was deemed a hero for stonewalling...
...trial, George banged his fist on the railing and denounced "those goddamned hypocrites" in Congress. "Congress wanted to set somebody up," he shouted, "and I walked right into it." Nonsense. As former Senator Thomas Eagleton testified, Congress just wanted the truth. "((We)) didn't put a noose around Clair George's neck," said Eagleton. "Clair George put a noose around his neck...
Former CIA Director William Webster believes that most agency staff members have learned the lessons of the Iran-contra debacle, and is against retrying George on practical grounds. If punishment is required, he argues, Clair George has already suffered profoundly. If it's a warning to other CIA officials that is needed, the messa