Word: claire
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...CLAIR GEORGE WAS BACK IN WASHington last week, after a Maine vacation where he satisfied his voracious reading habit and worked on his tennis serve. Next month he will be playing for higher stakes as federal prosecutors try to nail him for lying to Congress about the Iran-contra affair. Though the former CIA chief of clandestine operations received a respite three weeks ago when a jury could not reach a verdict on nine counts of perjury, making false statements and obstruction of justice, he now faces a retrial at the hands of special prosecutor Craig Gillen. Just...
...Iran-Contra trial of the CIA's Clair George ended in a hung jury last month, but independent counsel LAWRENCE WALSH was on the case, immediately requesting a retrial; one was set for Oct. 19. Now it seems Walsh is having second thoughts about that decision. Reportedly shocked over his failure to get a majority of the jury to convict on even one of the nine counts George is charged with, Walsh is consulting top legal eagles on whether to proceed. He's already feeling the heat from George supporters attacking the idea of another wasteful million-dollar trial. Besides...
Three times the jury deliberating the Iran-contra perjury trial of former CIA spy chief Clair George trooped into the courtroom to report an impasse, and three times Judge Royce Lamberth sent them back out to keep trying. Finally, after almost six days of fruitless deliberation, foreman Steven Kirk said his panel was totally deadlocked on all nine counts -- from perjury to giving false statements to Congress. "As a citizen," said Kirk, a Washington consultant, "I expect senior government officials like Clair George to be more forthcoming to Congress. As a juror, I felt compelled to give him the benefit...
...signals have suggested otherwise. Former Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger, who will stand trial early next year on perjury charges, strongly implied that special prosecutor Lawrence Walsh had offered to reduce charges against him if he would help finger Ronald Reagan. Clair George, formerly the CIA deputy director for operations, who is now on trial for perjury, received a similar offer to name names right to the top. Oliver North, once Reagan's most adoring acolyte, proclaimed his own unclouded version of the former President's involvement in the Iran-contra scandal in his memoirs: "President Reagan knew everything...
...vigil helped ease my sense of isolation, seeing people of different backgrounds and faculty committed to changing things in this country," said Clair Fox, a staff assistant in the school's students affairs office...