Word: libyan
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This damage control method is the teflon of our "teflon President." Reagan has played the same game in every major political scrape throughout his Administration. He used it after the breakdown of the Reykjavik summit, after the Libyan disinformation scandal and during the coming to power of Corazon Aquino in the Philippines. Reagan has applied this method to the Iran crisis in an effort to regain his stature. But this time the damage control has failed. The media has so far sustained its onslaught...
...more important, the mood of respect and camaraderie which Reagan cultivated with the press has eroded recently, especially in the wake of the Libyan disinformation campaign. The recent Congressional election also hurt Reagan in the media's eyes. When Reagan lost the Senate, 55-45 to the Democrats, he lost his aura of political invincibility...
...NOVEMBER, HOWEVER, I was forced to reevaluate the President. The government conceded that, yes, it had lied to the American people about the Libyan Crisis. Then, the nation learned that American arms had been sent to Iran. Mr. Reagan went on television, delaying The Cosby Show, to tell voters he'd sent a few spare parts to a couple of "moderate" ayatollahs. Less than a plane load, he said. Later, we were told that perhaps $1 billion in "spare parts" had been shipped to the volatile Middle East nation...
...written confession described how Hindawi had helped arrange the Friendship Society bombing in West Berlin. Hasi said his brother had flown with Salameh to Damascus last January to discuss the attack with Syrian military intelligence officials. Hindawi made the trip, Hasi's statement said, after failing to receive Libyan support for his operations. In East Berlin, Fayssal Sammak, Syria's Ambassador to East Germany, labeled the confession "lies, pure lies...
...serves as North's deputy. He meets regularly with foreign counterterrorist experts and coordinates operations with them. Craig Coy, 36, a Coast Guard commander, joined the NSC after serving on a White House terror task force. Lieut. Colonel Jim Stark, 38, worked with North in planning last spring's Libyan air raid. He is considered to be more disciplined than his sometimes freebooting colleagues, while sharing their tough-minded attitudes...