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- <text id=93TT0994>
- <title>
- Feb. 22, 1993: Walsh Soldiers On
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
- Feb. 22, 1993 Uncle Bill Wants You
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- THE WEEK, Page 15
- NATION
- Walsh Soldiers On
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p>The independent counsel lashes out against Bush and Reagan
- </p>
- <p> Following the series of surprise pardons by George Bush on Christmas
- Eve, Iran-contra prosecutor Lawrence Walsh has found himself
- largely reduced to shouting--loudly. In his latest report
- to Congress, Walsh continued to beat the drums. He direct
- ly accused the former President of committing a "grave disservice"
- to the country by shielding former Defense Secretary Caspar
- Weinberger from prosecu tion, and he suggested that Bush
- may have done so to avoid answering, as a defense witness, "searching
- questions" about his own role in the scandal.
- </p>
- <p> Walsh disclosed that both former White House chief of staff
- Donald Regan and former Secretary of State George Shultz would
- have testified at the trial that President Reagan knew about
- a possibly illegal arms-for-hostage shipment of Hawk missiles
- to Iran in November 1985. Walsh's report, peppered with newly
- released notes, insisted that Weinberger helped cover up the
- truth. Not so, said Weinberger's lawyer, who labeled the report
- "a work of fiction."
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
- </text>
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