AT IRAN-CONTRA TRIAL, KERRY SAYS CIA SPYMASTER LIED TO CONGRESSPosted by MB Williams at July 23, 2004 06:42 AM | TrackBack
Steve Power, Boston Globe contributing reporter
July 25, 1992
WASHINGTON -- The US government fired the opening salvo in its case against Clair George yesterday with more than three hours of testimony from Sen. John F. Kerry, who accused the former CIA spymaster of lying to Congress about his knowledge of the Iran-Contra affair. As the prosecution's lead-off witness, Kerry told a US District Court jury that George lied during an October 1986 appearance before Congress when he told the Foreign Relations Committee he did not recognize the name Max...
WHAT BUSH KNEW -- AND WHEN
Boston Globe Editorial
July 21, 1992The release of previously classified intelligence documents on Saddam Hussein's procurement of weapons before his invasion of Kuwait validates the House Judiciary Committee's request for a special prosecutor to investigate possible lawbreaking by top officials of the Bush administration. Meanwhile, the administration's public relations campaign in defense of its actions does nothing to diminish the need for an impartial investigation...
RECOVERY MAY COME TOO LATE FOR BUSH
Hobart Rowen, The Washington Post
July 26, 1992Sen. Donald W. Riegle Jr. (D-Mich.) pointed out during the [Alan Greenspan] hearing that real per capita income has declined over the entire three years of the [Bush] administration, the first time that has happened since the Hoover Depression days.
Sen. Paul Sarbanes (D-Md.) said after the Senate Banking Committee hearing: "We've got a serious situation here, but Bush and Greenspan are singing from the ...
FACING PRESSURE, BUSH IS ADAMANT ON KEEPING QUAYLE; A FLURRY OF SPECULATION
R.W. APPLE Jr., Special to The New York Times
July 23, 1992WASHINGTON, July 22 -- With pressures mounting within his own party for further measures to revitalize his re-election campaign, President Bush denied today that he was even considering the possibility of replacing Vice President Dan Quayle....
FOR BUSH, A HIGH-RISK RESPONSE
Mary Curtius, Boston Globe
July 25, 1992WASHINGTON -- As he edges closer to another military confrontation with Saddam Hussein, George Bush is acutely aware that its outcome could either boost his sagging political fortunes or hand him a humiliating defeat. A president traditionally benefits from looking decisive on the world stage.
But senior administration officials insist that Bush fears the domestic political fallout if this confrontation results in anything less than Iraqi capitulation to the Security Council's...
U.S.-SAUDI LINKS REPORTED
Special to The New York Times
July 21, 1992WASHINGTON, July 20 -- Government papers show that the United States and Saudi Arabia have cooperated extensively on oil marketing matters for many years, The Washington Post reports in its Tuesday issue. Such a relationship has been widely assumed to exist, although the countries have long denied it...
DOW TUMBLES IN ANOTHER SHARP LOSS
The Washington Post
July 21, 1992It was the second straight session in which stocks fell sharply. When IBM came out with weaker-than-expected earnings Friday, the Dow fell 37.01 points. IBM continued to slip today, losing 2 1/8 to 92 7/8 and topping the Big Board actives list.
Wall Street's bearish mood was further soured by sharp losses in London, Tokyo and Frankfurt. Japanese stocks sank 4 percent, German issues lost ...
U.S. WAS AWARE THE IRAQIS WERE BUYING TECHNOLOGY
By Elaine Sciolino, The New York Times
Juyl 22, 1992WASHINGTON, July 21 -- A year before Iraq's invasion of Kuwait, American intelligence agencies had amassed evidence of President Saddam Hussein's vast network set up to buy Western military technology, including an Iraqi-owned front company based in Cleveland, according to documents disclosed today by Representative Henry B. Gonzalez, a Texas Democrat...
HOUSE, SENATE CANDIDATES FEAR EFFECT OF BUSH'S SLIDE
Helen Dewar, The Washington Post
July 24, 1992A wave of consternation has spread through Republican ranks on Capitol Hill over prospects for critical House and Senate races this fall unless President [Bush] moves swiftly to regain the political offensive and reverse his slide in public opinion polls.
With Bush down, Democrat Bill Clinton up and Ross Perot out, Republican lawmakers who have been predicting big gains in the House and moderate gains ...
BUSH'S MUDDY MESSAGE; AND FIVE THINGS HE COULD DO.
George F. Will, The Washington Post
Juyl 23, 1992Like the farmers who tilled fields at the foot of Mount Vesuvius, [Bush] campaigners are confident that natural forces favor them. Rich Bond, GOP chairman, interviewed on television with a beach behind him, yawned about Clinton's surge. Noting that four years ago Dukakis led Bush 51 to 34, Bond said: "You see behind me high tide. Time passes, gravity occurs, the tide goes out and ...
AN AMERICA IN THE GRIP OF `DEBT REVULSION'; CONSUMERS' RELUCTANCE TO SPEND SEEN HAMPERING ECONOMIC RECOVERY
John M. Berry, The Washington Post
July 26, 1992
Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan says he is not sure when things will get back to normal. "I don't know when that specific time is going to present itself," Greenspan told the Senate Banking Committee last week. "We are looking at a phenomenon which we have not seen for half a century."In two appearances on Capitol Hill last week, Greenspan said this painfully slow ...
BUSH ON THE ATTACK; BUT CHARGES AGAINST CLINTON AND GORE COULD RAISE HIS OWN NEGATIVE IMAGE
Andrew Rosenthal, The New York Times
July 23, 1992WASHINGTON, July 22 -- President Bush has wasted no time attacking the Democratic nominee, accusing Gov. Bill Clinton this week of peddling birth control pills to teen-agers without their parents' consent and encouraging children to "haul their parents into court."...
BUSH PLAYS POLITICS WITH HEALTH RESEARCH
Joan Kuriansky, New York Times
July 21, 1992How much does President Bush care about victims of breast cancer, osteoporosis and other diseases? Apparently not as much as he cares about placating opponents of the right to choose. He has vetoed the National Institutes of Health reauthorization bill the most important women's health legislation to emerge from this Congress...
GREENSPAN OPTIMISTIC BUT CAUTIOUS; NO EVIDENCE OF AN ECONOMIC SURGE BY ELECTION DAY.
Steven Greenhouse, The New York Times
July 22, 1992WASHINGTON, July 21 -- Alan Greenspan, chairman of the Federal Reserve, gave an only faintly upbeat forecast today, saying the economy would gain momentum soon. But he failed to say how soon and added that the jobless rate -- the most politically sensitive economic indicator in an election year -- would remain above 7 percent for the rest of 1992...
ON ROAD AS EQUAL PARTNERS IN NEW KIND OF POLITICAL ACT
Michael Kelly, The New York Times
July 22, 1992VANDALIA, Ill., July 21 -- Bill Clinton and Al Gore have developed a political act unlike any seen on a Presidential ticket before, a political tag-team show that rests on presenting the two men as equal partners in a joint venture.
FROM PARTNER TO HELPMATE HILLARY CLINTON SPURS DEBATE ON PRESIDENTIAL WIVES
Elizabeth Neuffer, Boston Globe
July 20, 1992WASHINGTON -- The Democrats hailed 1992 last week as the Year of the Woman in Politics. But to many who scrutinized the televised Democratic Convention in Madison Square Garden, it was clearly not the Year of the Political First Lady. There was presidential nominee Bill Clinton, surrounded by woman candidates for Congress, declaring, ''We need a new gender of leadership in America.'' Yet there was career woman Hillary Rodham Clinton, newly remade by the campaign's...
LONG-TERM JOBLESS IRATE OVER BENEFITS
Elizabeth Neuffer, Boston Globe
July 21, 1992
WASHINGTON -- Hundreds of unemployed workers, seeking to obtain the extended federal jobless benefits approved by Congress July 4, are discovering the emergency measure is not nearly as generous as it first seemed. The bill -- hastily approved by lawmakers as they tried to beat an end-of- session deadline -- does not help long-term unemployed workers who have exhausted their extended benefits. Unlike earlier emergency legislation, the bill does not extend the number of weeks that the..
(And who stepped up to fix the problem?)KENNEDY, KERRY BILL WOULD LIFT LONG-TERM BENEFITS BY 13 WEEKS
Gady A. Epstein, Boston Globe
July 24, 1992Sens. John Kerry and Edward M. Kennedy introduced a bill last night to extend federal benefits for the long-term unemployed by 13 weeks, attempting to redress an unemployment package hastily passed early this month that some legislators mistakenly assumed would help the long-term unemployed. Rep. Chester G. Atkins will propose similar legislation today, but he and Senate aides admit that in the face of a certain presidential veto, it will be extremely difficult to pass any extension of...
GAY STAFFER TAKES ON THE GOP; FRANZ SAYS RELIGIOUS RIGHT PUSHED HIM OUT OF CAMPAIGN
Bruce D. Brown, The Washington Post
July 24, 1992A month after [Franz] met with [Robert Mosbacher], he was called into the office of Tom Harvey, the campaign's personnel director. Here, Franz argues in his complaint, Harvey told him that due to "ideological differences with the religious right," some campaign officials wanted him off the [Bush-Quayle] team.
Bush-Quayle spokesman Tony Mitchell said Franz was offered the new position - at an extra $100 a ...
WHO LOST PROSPERITY?
The Washington Post Editorial
July 22, 1992Mr. [Alan Greenspan] has been arguing for some time that the country is convalescing from the enormous boom of the 1980s, a time of much too much easy borrowing and easy spending not only by the government but by businesses and individuals. Who's to blame for the result? Just about everybody. In the past recession, people began to realize that their debts were too big. ...
CASH-HUNGRY STATES REVAMP WELFARE
Elizabeth Neuffer, Boston Globe
July 22, 1992WASHINGTON -- Struggling with strained budgets and frustrated by surging numbers of dependent poor, growing numbers of states are asking Washington to waive federal regulations so they may implement sweeping changes in their welfare systems. On Monday, New Jersey became the fifth state this year to receive such a waiver, which allows the state to undertake experimental reforms for the next five years, including denying further benefits to mothers who have more children while on welfare...
ORDERS FOR DURABLES ROSE 2.3% IN JUNE
John D. McClain, Associated Press
July 25, 1992WASHINGTON -- Orders to US factories for durable goods rose 2.3 percent in June, the government said yesterday, but analysts contended the advance revealed little manufacturing strength. ''The June increase is barely enough to compensate for the decline in May,'' said John M. Albertine, head of a Washington economic forecasting firm. ''The truth is the recovery is just treading water.''
"It's a one-step-forward, one-step-back kind of...
TWO DECISIONS FACING BUSH
Boston Globe Editorial
July 24, 1992President Bush is facing two major decisions -- whether to dump Dan Quayle from the 1992 ticket, and whether to take military action against Saddam Hussein. The first question is obviously political, the other equally so, if not obviously so. Every drop in the polls heightens the pressure to dump Quayle, and there are reports that the Republican high command is polling on the question and is merely waiting for the results.
(Remember from where Jr. gets his testiness with critics..)BUSH, HECKLERS CLASH AT POW-MIA MEETING
Michael Putzel and John W. Mashek, Boston Globe
July 25, 1992WASHINGTON -- President Bush, heckled yesterday by the families of Vietnam POWs and MIAs, sharply rebuked his detractors in an angry exchange that seemed to reflect the frayed nerves of a star-crossed reelection effort. ''Would you please sit down and shut up!'' Bush snapped as he was repeatedly interrupted during a short speech to a group that has long been friendly toward him.
The president later insisted he was not upset. And Sen. John Kerry, a Democrat, came to...
(Darn, what did Kerry do? Guess I'll have to go buy the whole article...)