Word: iranscam
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...figure in the political melodrama. But North isn't talking. The White House is on edge; no one knows what secrets North holds or whom he may implicate in the scandal. In this atmosphere of high anxiety, North's attorney, Brendan Sullivan, meets with Reagan's special counselor on Iranscam, David Abshire. Sullivan's objective: a presidential pardon for his client...
...important reason for Bush's recovery is that questions raised about his credibility in the early stages of the Iranscam investigation have now evaporated. Dole at first capitalized on Iranscam by deftly showing just the amount of independence from the White House that party loyalty would allow. But he was unable to generate continuing momentum when Bush was most vulnerable. While Dole divided his time between the Senate and the hustings, his campaign team was struggling to organize itself and raise money. Up to this point, the TIME poll indicates, Dole has been unable to establish a presidential profile strong...
...committed, it is the duty of the independent counsel to prosecute," Walsh told the American Bar Association last week. "High office, well- intended policies or popular policies do not place anyone above the law." But the impression left by that 40-minute session in the White House was that Iranscam is a script that may never have a climax. Reagan is free because he did not know. "I knew I'd told the truth," he says, "and that the truth would have to come out, and did." It is hard for Washington, so conditioned by guile and intrigue, to accept...
...understand why people criticize the Congressmen who made impassioned statements during the Iran-contra hearings. Would Edmund Burke or James Madison have sat meekly by in similar circumstances? Only in the course of investigations into a Watergate or an Iranscam do Americans have the opportunity to hear their lawmakers expound their political philosophies...
...enough for the many reporters, European as well as American, who wanted to cover the best show in town, and crowds gathered outside the door to watch the drama on TV monitors. In many newspapers and on some TV news shows, it threatened to upstage the Iranscam hearings...