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...effort to eliminate the need for auxilary housing, Winthrop House officials have decided to create several five-room seven-man suites for incoming sophomores, according to a memo delivered to all house residents today...

Author: By Brooke A. Masters, | Title: Winthrop Creates 7-Man, 5-Room Sophomore Suites | 3/10/1987 | See Source »

...memo said that seven five-room suites will be created by combining senior three-room doubles and sophomore two-room doubles into larger apartments...

Author: By Brooke A. Masters, | Title: Winthrop Creates 7-Man, 5-Room Sophomore Suites | 3/10/1987 | See Source »

...beginning of his involvement with the hostages, North crafted elaborate proposals on how to free the "LebNap victims," as he once called them. These sometimes included equations computing the means and number of weapons that would be required for the release of one American citizen. He noted in one memo to Poindexter, "1 707 w/300 TOWs = 1 AMCIT...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Oliver North's Blank Check | 3/9/1987 | See Source »

...December 1985 he dramatically resisted McFarlane's efforts to shut down the arms pipeline to Iran. North wrote a memo to Poindexter in which he argued, "Like you and Bud, I find the idea of bartering over the lives of these poor men repugnant. Nonetheless, I believe that we are, at this point . . . too far along with the Iranians to risk turning back now. If we do not at least make one more try at this point, we stand a good chance of condemning some or all to death and a renewed wave of Islamic Jihad terrorism. While the risks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Oliver North's Blank Check | 3/9/1987 | See Source »

Shortly thereafter, Poindexter appeared to have decided to relieve North of the contra "account." North was wounded, but responded with an artful memo in which he played the chastened schoolboy, managing to sound contrite and defiant at the same time: "Since I returned a few minutes ago I have been told that even my luncheon with my sister yesterday is in question . . . I can understand why you may well have reservations about both my involvement in Nicaragua policy and even my continued tenure here . . . I want you to know that it is for me, deeply disappointing to have lost your...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Oliver North's Blank Check | 3/9/1987 | See Source »

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