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...Pentagon said the SH-3G Sea King helicopter crashed into the water at 5:58 p.m. local time, or 10:58 a.m. EDT, as it was flying from a land base to the LaSalle, the command ship of the Mideast Task Force...
This has offended many deep thinkers. Crucial constitutional questions of official secrecy, separation of powers, chain of command and the like were highlighted by North's testimony. Deep thinkers are offended that the masses have lost sight of them in Olliemania. But these questions have hardly been neglected. For the past eight months the country's op-ed pages have conducted a national seminar on the conflicting demands of secrecy, democracy and constitutionality...
Throughout his career, John Poindexter had played by the rules. As a vice admiral in the U.S. Navy, he was regarded as a painstakingly efficient officer who paid scrupulous attention to the chain of command, never challenging his superiors, always following orders to the letter. Indeed, one commanding officer characterized Poindexter as "totally loyal and trustworthy, and a thorough briefer who rarely interjected his own viewpoints." But as Ronald Reagan's National Security Adviser from December 1985 to November 1986, Poindexter told his questioners last week, he broke that pattern. In February 1986, after just two months...
...chain of command in the Iran-contra affair ran from Oliver North, who served as a National Security Council aide, through the National Security Adviser (first Robert McFarlane and then John Poindexter), to the President. Here, in paraphrase, is where the four stand in taking responsibility for key actions...
...nature as well as by habit, the Soviet system has always run on fear and force. Gorbachev is now telling both rulers and ruled that it runs badly. But to make the system run well, is Gorbachev willing to lead his comrades toward a future in which command and intimidation are replaced by consent and competition? If he tries, will they follow? If they do, will the resulting society still be the Soviet Union? To judge from the resistance that Gorbachev talks about openly, quite a few of his fellow citizens are worried not so much about ideological purity...