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...million in humanitarian aid the U.S. had granted them in 1985. Poindexter saw the diversion scheme as a way of providing "bridge financing" for the contras while the Administration struggled to persuade Congress to approve a $100 million aid package. "I thought it was a neat idea too," Poindexter said, echoing North's description of the deal...
Poindexter recognized that the diversion would be as controversial as it was neat. Thus, he said, he approved it without informing Reagan, in order to "provide some future deniability for the President if it ever leaked out." Poindexter argued that in authorizing the deal he was not making policy; he was only carrying out Reagan's established objectives. "My role was to make sure that his policies were implemented," said Poindexter. "In this case, the policy was very clear, and that was to support the contras." After working in the White House since June 1981, he said, "I was convinced...
...Pretty neat, as special efforts go, but the language and action of Euripides' drama could sure have used the attention this gimmickry must have demanded...
...smart parody and often a sharp instrument for social satire. Tom Hanks is not so lucky: he must represent relativistic contemporary values to Friday. It is simply not a fair fight. And both of them are overwhelmed by a story that unlike the old Dragnet TV plots, which were neat little slices of lowlife, is a mess of municipal corruption, pornography and religious-cult nonsense. As a result, the LAPD in this picture finally looks like a wholly owned subsidiary of the Beverly Hills cops...
...some reason, he has always favored culs-de-sac, so he hopes you live on one, someday, a neat little cutoff that surprises the city's motions with a pause. Trees on the street; he would like that for you, and low modest houses so the sky is evident. He hopes that your mornings are absolutely still except for birds, but that the evenings bulge with human outcry, families calling to one another in the darkening hours. He wishes you small particulars: a letter received indicating sudden affection, an exchange of wit with a total stranger, a moment of helpless...