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Tropic of Cancer By Henry Miller
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BOOK OF A LIFETIME
The only book in my parents' bookcase which was turned the wrong
way round with the spine hidden was Tropic of Cancer (1934) by Henry
Miller. Their idea was, no doubt, one of caring parental censorship:
they didn't want the novel that led to the rewriting of US laws on
pornography to fall into my 13-year-old hands. Copies had to be
illegally smuggled into the US until the 1960s and a publisher did
ten years in jail. Given that my parents were liberal leftists and
their bookshelf also included texts by Erica Jong, Aldous Huxley,
Jean-Paul Sartre and Vance Packard, I ...
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Putting a bad business behind him? (George Bush's presidential campaign and the Iran-Contra affair)
Magazine article from: U.S. News & World Report
; ...week by the Iran-Contra investigating committees...Nicaraguan rebels, or Contras--"resupply of the Contras' was one of the topics...doesn't know how the Contra reference found its...so much else in the Iran-Contra affair, they remain unanswered...
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Reagan and the Iran-Contra Affair: The Politics of Presidential Recovery.(Review)
Magazine article from: Presidential Studies Quarterly
; Reagan and the Iran-Contra Affair: The Politics of Presidential...Iran to support the Contra war in Nicaragua. When...effectively over. The Iran-Contra affair raised large political...obsessively asked in Iran-Contra merely quoted...
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McFarlane Enters Guilty Plea Arising From Iran-Contra Affair; Former Reagan Adviser Withheld Information From Congress
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post
; ...advice to the contras during the aid...involvement with the contras had prompted...House Foreign Affairs subcommittee...that after the Iran-contra affair was disclosed...House Foreign Affairs Committee when...dollars to the contras and did not disclose...private North ...
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Who is telling the truth. (Iran Contra Affair)
Magazine article from: U.S. News & World Report
; ...regarding the Iran-Contra affair, but someone...Iran-Contra affair. The Contra...in North's affairs, either in Iran or regarding...well about the Contra effort. "He...of either the Iran arms sales or...funds to the Contras, issued a ...
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RECALLING THE KEY EVENTS IN THE IRAN-CONTRA AFFAIR 1984
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe
; ...assist the contras. Meese says...investigate affair. 1987 Jan...investigate Iran-contra affair. Feb...hearings into Iran-contra affair. North defends...profits to contras. 1988 March...before the Iran-contra committee...
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Paying the price for political errors. (Iran-Contra affair)
Magazine article from: U.S. News & World Report
; ...analogy. They are looking at the Iran-Contra affair through Watergate lenses. But...criminal behavior. At the center of Iran-Contra were the arms-for-hostages deal with Iran and efforts to aid the Contras-political decisions. On the...
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THE IRAN-CONTRA AFFAIR 20 YEARS ON
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News
; ...S.-backed Contra rebels in Nicaragua...role in both the Iran deals and the...support for the Contras, but Reagan...support for the Contras (whom he ordered...years later, the Iran-Contra affair continues to...at its heart Iran-Contra was...
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INDICTMENT SETS OUT EVENTS IN TANGLED IRAN-CONTRA AFFAIR
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe
; ...major figures in the Iran-contra affair: Spring 1985 -- After...purchase of arms for the contras fighting the government...delivers 100 TOW missiles to Iran after President Reagan...additional 408 TOW missiles to Iran. Sept. 15, 1985...
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Chronology of events in Iran-contra affair
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe
; ...The major dates in the Iran-contra affair and subsequent investigations...Israeli officials about Iran arms shipments, Marine...Nicaragua's US-backed contras. Jan. 17, 1986...million in profits from Iran arms sales for contra...
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The ins and outs of the scandal. (Iran Contra affair)
Magazine article from: U.S. News & World Report
; ...hearings on the Iran-Contra affair, the investigating...weapons to, the Contras in Nicaragua. Here...the diversion of Iran arms-deal profits...on behalf of the Contras, and Lt. Col...meet so often with Contra backers in the Oval...
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