" Shatner participated in the sketch, outfitted in a USMC Class A uniform, which was a satire of Oliver North and his refusal at that point to speak up about his participation in the Iran-Contra Affair, and in which he had no lines.

The secret contra assistance was run by the National Security Council, with officer Lt. Col. Oliver North in charge.

According to the National Security Archive, Oliver North had been in contact with Manuel Noriega, the military leader of Panama later convicted on drug charges, whom he personally met.

On top of that, Oliver North helped Carl Channell's tax-exempt organization, the " National Endowment for the Preservation of Liberty ", to raise $ 10 million, by arranging numerous briefings for groups of potential contributors at the premises of the White House and by facilitating private visits and photo sessions with president Reagan for major contributors.

With the fundraising help of friend Oliver North, Rohrabacher was able to win the Republican primary with a plurality of 35 %.

Large modifications to the plan were devised by Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North of the National Security Council in late 1985, in which a portion of the proceeds from the weapon sales was diverted to fund anti-Sandinista and anti-communist rebels, or Contras, in Nicaragua.

* 1989 – Iran-Contra Affair: Oliver North is sentenced by U. S. District Judge Gerhard A. Gesell to a three-year suspended prison term, two years probation, $ 150, 000 in fines and 1, 200 hours community service.

His 1970s films included Monte Walsh ( 1970 ) with Jeanne Moreau, the violent Prime Cut ( 1972 ) with Gene Hackman, Pocket Money ( 1972 ) with Paul Newman, Emperor of the North Pole ( 1973 ) opposite Ernest Borgnine, as Hickey in The Iceman Cometh ( 1973 ) with Fredric March and Robert Ryan, The Spikes Gang ( 1974 ) with Noah Beery, Jr., The Klansman ( 1974 ) with Richard Burton, Shout at the Devil ( 1976 ) with Roger Moore, The Great Scout and Cathouse Thursday ( 1976 ) with Oliver Reed, and Avalanche Express ( 1978 ) with Robert Shaw.

* 1989 – Iran-Contra Affair: Former White House aide Oliver North is convicted of three crimes and acquitted of nine other charges.

* 1988 – Iran-Contra Affair: Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North and Vice Admiral John Poindexter are indicted on charges of conspiracy to defraud the United States.

* 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.

* 1943 – Oliver North, American former military officer

When this scheme was revealed, Reagan admitted that he knew about Iranian " arms for hostages " dealings but professed ignorance about the proceeds funding the Contras ; for this, National Security Council aide Lt. Col. Oliver North took much of the blame.

" According to the National Security Archive, Oliver North had been in contact with Manuel Noriega, the US-backed president of Panama.

Freedom of Information Act inquiries by the National Security Archive and other investigators unearthed a number of documents showing that White House officials, including Oliver North, knew about and supported using money raised via drug trafficking to fund the Contras.

Oliver North supposedly used this bank during the Iran-Contra scandal by funneling money from his shell organization, the " National Endowment for the Preservation of Liberty ", through Palmer National Bank to the Contras.

According to the National Security Archive, in an August 23, 1986 e-mail to John Poindexter, Oliver North described a meeting with a representative of Panamanian President Manuel Noriega: " You will recall that over the years Manuel Noriega in Panama and I have developed a fairly good relationship ", North writes before explaining Noriega's proposal.

** Iran-Contra Affair: Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North and Vice Admiral John Poindexter are indicted on charges of conspiracy to defraud the United States.

* September 16 – Judge Gerhard Gesell of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia issues a ruling clearing Col. Oliver North of all charges brought against him in the Iran – Contra affair.

* November 21 – Iran-Contra Affair: National Security Council member Oliver North and his secretary, Fawn Hall, start shredding documents implicating them in selling weapons to Iran and channeling the proceeds to help fund the Contra rebels in Nicaragua.

Another legend claims that following the Navigation Acts ( an ordinance by Oliver Cromwell requiring all foreign fleets in the North Sea or the Channel to dip their flag in salute ) the Wilhelmus was sung ( or rather, shouted ) by the sailors on the Dutch flagship Brederode in response to the first warning shot fired by an English fleet under Robert Blake, when their captain Maarten Tromp refused to lower his flag.

In 1994, the Coalition was fined for " improperly then Representative Newt Gingrich ( R-GA ) and Oliver North, who was then the Republican Senate nominee in Virginia.

Preserved 7MT 70013 Oliver Cromwell approaching Weybourne on the North Norfolk Railway on 11 March 2010.

In English the word first came to prominence during the Protectorate of Oliver Cromwell.

One computer program run by Dan Oliver of Scottsdale, Arizona, according to an article in The New Yorker, came up with a result on August 4, 2004: After the group had worked for 42, 162, 500, 000 billion billion monkey-years, one of the " monkeys " typed, "< tt > VALENTINE.

That same year Oliver Cromwell came to Perth following his victory in the Battle of Dunbar and established a fortified citadel on the South Inch, one of five occupation forts built to control Scotland.

The first machine for producing large quantities of corrugated board was built in 1874 by G. Smyth, and in the same year Oliver Long improved upon Jones ' design by inventing corrugated board with liner sheets on both sides, thereby inventing corrugated board as it came to be known in modern times.

Fessenden began limited radio experimentation, and soon came to the conclusion that he could develop a far more efficient system than the spark-gap transmitter and coherer-receiver combination which had been championed by Oliver Lodge and Marconi.

The name for the community likely came from " The Deserted Village " by Oliver Goldsmith, that begins " Sweet Auburn!

After the mill came into the ownership of Oliver A. Hyde, the place became known as " Hyde's Mills ".

This prosperity, however, came to an end after the death of Captain Oliver in 1891.

Oliver Cromwell came to Pembroke and took the castle after a seven-week siege.

Milton had been Oliver Cromwell's chief propagandist and suffered when the Restoration came.

The Oliver Springs Hotel catered to wealthy guests, who came from all over the U. S. and Europe to drink the waters and bathe in the springs.

In 1888, the railroad came to Oliver Springs and brought thousands of visitors to the springs.

* Much of the historical information came from the Oliver Springs homepage ( see below ).

The Parliamentarian general Oliver Cromwell came across the Irish Sea to crush the Irish royalists, temporarily uniting England, Scotland, and Ireland under one government, and styling himself " Lord Protector " of the three kingdoms.

Also worth noting is that composer William Walton, who had scored Olivier's three Shakespearean films ( Henry V, Hamlet and Richard III ) came out of retirement to write the title music for the show, although this was only used for the first two series and then replaced by a new theme by Stephen Oliver.

One of the American firm's best early results came in the Isle of Man TT in 1911, when Indian riders Oliver Cyril Godfrey, Franklin and Moorehouse finished first, second and third.

It was while he was teaching at the Central School of Art ( later Central St Martins College ) that Oliver Postgate came looking for, as Firmin puts it: "… someone to illustrate a television story – someone who was hard up and would do a lot of drawing for very little money ".

Rhoda later visits Oliver and explains Anne's bad manners: Anne, after her father's death and before old friend Rhoda came to her rescue, worked as a live-in companion ; one employer, a Mrs. Benson, had taken hat paint — poison — from a medicine bottle and died.

Barebone's Parliament, also known as the Little Parliament, the Nominated Assembly and the Parliament of Saints, came into being on 4 July 1653, and was the last attempt of the English Commonwealth to find a stable political form before the installation of Oliver Cromwell as Lord Protector.

She was with Oliver at the Dreamland in 1921, when an offer came for the orchestra to play a six-month engagement at San Francisco's Pergola Ballroom.

During the Constitutional Convention of 1787, summoned into existence to amend the Articles of Confederation, Sherman and Oliver Ellsworth offered what came to be called the Great Compromise or Connecticut Compromise.

Twisted helices of deep fried turkey meat, sold as " turkey twizzlers ," came to prominence in the UK in 2004 when chef Jamie Oliver campaigned to have them and similar foods removed from school dinners.

Christie even thought of placing a murder at the Club with Oliver being one of the suspects / detective but it came to nothing ( Agatha Christie's Secret Notebooks, edited by John Curran ).

Lea collaborated with Oliver Morosco, the proprietor of the Burbank Theater, to produce a dramatized version of the The Ling Chee in the fall of 1907, but nothing came of the venture.