...Thant died in New York at age 65. In 1986, the Iran-Contra affair erupted as President Reagan and Attorney General Edwin Meese revealed that profits from secret arms sales to Iran had been diverted to Nicaraguan rebels. In 1987, Harold Washington...

...in bringing criminal charges. In the words of that eminent jurist and President Ronald Reagan's Attorney General Edwin Meese, "If they weren't guilty of something, they wouldn't be suspects." A young friend asked me, "Well, aren't...

...ousted in a bloodless military coup. In 1986, the Iran-Contra affair erupted as President Reagan and Attorney General Edwin Meese revealed that profits from secret arms sales to Iran had been diverted to Nicaraguan rebels. In 1997, President Clinton...

President Ronald Reagan so strongly opposed the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea that he didn't just not sign the treaty. He very publicly refused to sign it. He also dismissed the State Department staff that helped negotiate it.

...ousted in a bloodless military coup. In 1986, the Iran-Contra affair erupted as President Reagan and Attorney General Edwin Meese revealed that profits from secret arms sales to Iran had been diverted to Nicaraguan rebels. In 1998, Chinese President...