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WASHINGTON--Attorney General Edwin Meese III yesterday denied through a spokesman that he had any knowledge of a memo written in early October by CIA Director William Casey relaying suspicions that money from U.S. weapons sales to Iran was being diverted to the Contras...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Meese Denies Receiving CIA Contra Memo | 12/18/1986 | See Source »

...December 28, 1984, "personal and confidential" memo from Fraser to North notes that the sultan of Brunei had given $500,000 to a drug program favored by first lady Nancy Reagan and states: "Naturally, it has been recommended that he might kick in a million dollars of that for the refugees for Central America...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: North Involved With Controversial 85 Fundraiser | 12/17/1986 | See Source »

...months before the Challenger disaster, one Morton-Thiokol engineer wrote a memo urging that all shuttle flights cease until questions about O-ring performance could be resolved. Management ignored that advice...

Author: By Gregory R. Bell, | Title: Morton - Thiokol: Getting Off Easy | 12/10/1986 | See Source »

...group sent out a memo Friday to all K-School students urging them to write to Dean Graham T. Allison '62 to express their support for a program which would reduce the amount of loan money K-school graduates would have to repay if they enter public service upon graduation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Reporter's Notebook | 12/8/1986 | See Source »

...this month, when Reagan was the newly elected Governor of California and Meese a hard-line Alameda County deputy district attorney. Joining Reagan's staff as legal-affairs adviser, Meese soon rose to become chief of staff. A trusted but low-profile aide, Meese perfected the one-page "mini-memo," in which complex issues were reduced to a few paragraphs for a chief executive who had little patience for details...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Return of Mr. Fix-It | 12/8/1986 | See Source »

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