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- Jan. 11, 1993: End of the Affair?
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- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
- Jan. 11, 1993 Megacities
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- THE WEEK
- NATION, Page 8
- End of the Affair?
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- <body>
- <p>Signals conflict on whether Walsh will call a halt to his
- Iran-contra probe
- </p>
- <p> Is the Iran-Contra investigation finally drawing to a close?
- Midweek, a source close to independent counsel Lawrence Walsh
- leaked word that the Oklahoma lawyer intends to halt the probe
- and deliver a final report to Congress. A day later, however,
- Walsh spokesman Mary Belcher denied the report. "Where we are is
- exactly as Judge Walsh described on Dec. 24," she said. "We are
- continuing to obtain and review the Bush notes. No decisions
- have been made one way or the other regarding further action
- because we aren't done yet."
- </p>
- <p> On Christmas Eve, Walsh charged Bush with "misconduct."
- Specifically, Walsh demanded to know why the President withheld
- until last month a 1986 personal diary that might be relevant
- to the inquiry. Those angry words followed Bush's pardon of six
- Iran-contra defendants, a move that set off a noisy debate. Were
- the pardons a show of compassion and personal courage--or an
- act of expediency and political perfidy? Most critics seemed
- less annoyed by the pardons than by Bush's cavalier dismissal
- of the defendants' actual or alleged crimes as mere "policy
- differences." Last week the President clarified his position.
- "Nobody," he said, "is above the law." In a signal that he took
- Walsh's warning seriously, Bush retained former Attorney General
- Griffin Bell to represent him.
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