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...Friday, Nov. 21, when Attorney General Edwin Meese revealed the preliminary results of his inquiry. According to the Los Angeles Times, however, Lieut. Colonel Oliver North has told several people that he briefed Regan about the diversion of funds to the contras in January and kept him regularly informed afterward. Regan vehemently denied the report, calling it "ridiculous." He protests, saying he does not have control over the NSC, which reports directly to the President. "Does a bank president know whether a bank teller is fiddling around with the books?" he asked rhetorically last week. "No." Yet Regan...
...simply stop in the middle of a hymn, overwhelmed. Barber glares. Privately, he tells Buswell that he is even louder than the organ -- to no avail. Finally, at a Sunday rehearsal, Barber dresses Buswell down: "Look, your pianissimo is not our pianissimo. Turn it way down." In the hallway afterward, Buswell, abashed, tells the other singers, "I guess I really blew it in there...
Hours after he was sworn in, Ileto paid a courtesy call on Enrile and held a press conference at which he described his predecessor as an old friend. Soon afterward, the new Defense Minister was visited by some 30 RAM officers. "I preached to them about unity," Ileto said later. His visitors apparently listened. Commented one RAM member, Navy Captain Rex Robles: "The game is over...
...briefing, in fact, led to an additional accusation against the Administration. On Thursday, Representative Jim Wright, who will become Speaker when the newly elected Congress meets, went to the White House to hear from National Security Adviser John Poindexter. Afterward the Texas Democrat told reporters that Iran had purchased 2,008 TOW antitank missiles and 235 "battery assemblies" for Hawk antiaircraft missiles from the U.S.; he later put the price at $12 million. The number of TOWs would be double the figure cited by a reporter at Reagan's news conference and not corrected by the President. The disclosure also...
...county, are finding their way into local schools. At a Mass last month, the outraged priest played one of the smuggler ballads and then asked his congregation, "There's a war going on. It's good against evil; what do you want?" As worshipers applauded and gathered around him afterward, the answer was obvious...