The Washington Post, May 28th, 1987
On the morning of the fourth week of the Iran-contra inquiry, two congressmen held a news conference down the hall from the hearing room to push a bill that could well be the only lasting consequence of the whole ugly mess. Reps. Jim Leach (R-Iowa) and Mel Levine (D-Calif.) offered a bill that would outlaw private foreign policy of the type that is being exhaustively examined by the two select committees. It would protect wealthy widows from sob stories about starving contra rebels and shut down operations of the type masterminded out of the White House by Lt. Col. Oliver L. North of the Natio...
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