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...faced trial on five charges of destroying documents and lying to Congress, John Poindexter switched signals and called Ronald Reagan as his star witness to share some responsibility for the Administration's secret policies to sell arms to Iran and assist the Nicaraguan contras. The former President failed to help his loyal National Security Adviser. Confused, forgetful and oblivious to the public record, Reagan would not even concede that Congress had been deceived. A federal jury in Washington last week thus pushed Poindexter over the side again, convicting him on all counts. The scandal's ultimate fall guy faces...
...boldly ridiculed Reagan's videotaped deposition. In his closing argument, Webb contended that Reagan "didn't have the foggiest idea" whether Poindexter had broken laws. Webb charged that the ex-President was so "biased" that he winked at Poindexter while testifying, as if to say, "John, did that answer help you?" Indirectly accusing Reagan of dissembling in a TV speech claiming there had been no trade of arms for hostages in the 1985-86 weapons sales to Iran, Webb said Poindexter had destroyed a presidential finding precisely because it "put the lie" to Reagan's declaration. Attacking the credibility...
...that Judge Harold Greene declared him a "hostile witness." Webb got North not only to admit to the jury that he had lied to Congress, but also that he had done so right after Poindexter had told him to "take care" of legislators' questions about the NSC's illegal help to the contras. On his return from the meeting, North got an electronic note from Poindexter saying "Well done...
...swinging away from in loco parentis. Now we're moving more to the middle." Many of today's students actually seem to yearn for a firmer hand. Says Samantha Gladish, 21, president of the Panhellenic Council at Bucknell: "We need someone to guide and help...
...Lithuania is slowly strangled, it appeals to the world for help. The world turns away ashamedly. Shame, because we know that the Lithuanian cause is just...