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* 1986 – Iran-Contra Affair: The Lebanese magazine Ash-Shiraa reports that the United States has been secretly selling weapons to Iran in order to secure the release of seven American hostages held by pro-Iranian groups in Lebanon.
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* 1986 – A low-pressure system that redeveloped off the New South Wales coast dumps a record 328 millimeters ( 13 inches ) of rain in a day on Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
* 1986 – Tyler " Telle " Smith, American singer-songwriter and musician ( The Word Alive and In Fear and Faith )
1986 and Iran-Contra
The Enterprise's efforts culminated in the Iran-Contra Affair of 1986 – 1987, which facilitated contra funding through the proceeds of arms sales to Iran.
The Iran – Contra affair (, ), also referred to as Irangate, Contragate or the Iran-Contra scandal, was a political scandal in the United States that came to light in November 1986.
Reagan's officials attempted to illegally supply them out of the proceeds of arms sales to Iran and third party donations, triggering the Iran-Contra Affair of 1986 – 87.
* 1986 – Iran-Contra Affair: National Security Council member Oliver North and his secretary start to shred documents implicating them in the sale of weapons to Iran and channeling the proceeds to help fund the Contra rebels in Nicaragua.
* 1986 – Iran-Contra scandal: U. S. President Ronald Reagan announces the members of what will become known as the Tower Commission.
In November 1986 as the sale of weapons was made public, North was fired by President Ronald Reagan, and in July 1987 he was summoned to testify before televised hearings of a joint Congressional committee formed to investigate Iran-Contra.
In November 1986, President Reagan asked Tower to chair the President's Special Review Board to study the action of the National Security Council and its staff during the Iran-Contra Affair.
In 1986, Mousavi played a great role in the Iran-Contra affair and secret negotiations and dealing with USA on helping them free the American hostages in Lebanon, in return for sale of the American weapons and spare-parts that Iran's army badly needed for Iran-Iraq War.
The search produced a May 1986 telex from Iran-Contra defendant General Richard Secord to North, discussing the gathering of information against LaRouche.
Other topics covered include the Fairness Doctrine, the Indonesian invasion of East Timor, Noam Chomsky, global warming, Roy Benavidez, the Trident submarine, the Star Wars program, the Sandinista National Liberation Front, the Iran-Contra Affair, the War Powers Act, US invasion of Lebanon during the Lebanese Civil War, the Invasion of Grenada, Óscar Romero, the El Mozote massacre, the 1986 Bombing of Libya, the collapse of the Soviet Union, the United States invasion of Panama, and the Gulf War.
* 1985 – 1986: Iran-Contra Affair-Thomas G. Clines is convicted of four counts of tax-related offenses for failing to report income from the operations.
* Oliver North ( using the name " John Clancy ") a United States Marine Corps Lieutenant Colonel and a central figure in the Iran-Contra scandal, carried a false Irish passport while visiting Iran in 1986, as did his fellow covert operatives.
1986 and Affair
* 1986 – Iran Contra Affair: US Attorney General Edwin Meese announces that profits from covert weapons sales to Iran were illegally diverted to the anti-communist Contra rebels in Nicaragua.
Alan Plater's first-ever book was a novelisation of The Beiderbecke Affair ( Methuen, 1985 ) and then he originally wrote The Beiderbecke Tapes as a novel ( Methuen, 1986 ) before dramatising it for ITV.
two-part episode " The Bridge of Lion's Affair ," in 1966 as THRUSH agent Jordin who's constant response to each additional assignment is " I'll look into it ," and in the Murder, She Wrote episode " One White Rose for Death ," in 1986.
Starting in the late summer of 1986, WNYW produced the nightly newsmagazine A Current Affair, one of the first shows to be labeled under the tag " tabloid television ".
Cryer made his motion picture debut in the 1984 romantic comedy No Small Affair, but gained greater fame as " Duckie " in the 1986 John Hughes-scripted film Pretty in Pink.
A Current Affair is an American television newsmagazine that aired in syndication from July 1986 to 1996 before reappearing briefly in March 2005.
He represented the nation at both UEFA Euro 1984 and the 1986 World Cup, being one of the few players that did not defect the national team after the latter competition ( following the infamous Saltillo Affair ), and ending his international career two years later.
Even though he had that stellar campaign with Sporting in 1985 – 86, he was excluded from the squad for the 1986 FIFA World Cup, which was marred by the Saltillo Affair.
Other movie productions set in Juliette were A Killing Affair, starring Peter Weller ( 1986 ); the documentary Fried Green Tomorrows: Juliette, Ga.
Waldheim Cemetery, Chicago, in May 1986 during ceremonies commemorating the 100th anniversary of the Haymarket Affair
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