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Author: Lee H. Hamilton
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Keywords: contra, affair, iran, investigating, congressional, committees, report
Number of Pages: 707
Published: 1995-11-01
ISBN-10: 0788126024
ISBN-13: 9780788126024
Contents: The Report: executive summary; Central America; the arms sales to Iran; exposure and concealment; the enterprise; conclusions and recommendations. Also contains the Minority report: the foreign affairs powers of the Constitution and the Iran-Contra Affair; Nicaragua; Iran; disclosure and investigations; putting Congress' house in order; and recommendations. Extensive appendices contain additional views of several Representatives and Senators.
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Author: David Stuart Ryan
Publisher: kozmik press
Keywords: affair
Number of Pages: 195
Published: 1982
ISBN-10: 0905116062
ISBN-13: 9780905116068
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Author: John Halkett
Publisher: Applewood Books
Keywords: settlement, selkirk, earl
Number of Pages: 309
Published: 2006-03-01
ISBN-10: 1557099723
ISBN-13: 9781557099723
In 1811, on land he received as a grant from the Hudson Bay Company in what is now Manitoba, the Earl of Selkirk established the Red River Colony. The colony met with conflict from the very beginning and was dispersed in 1815. The following year Selkirk arrived from Scotland to supervise. Selkirk became embroiled in litigation with the North West Company and the Canadian government, Selkirk believing that the whole affair was a conspiracy against him and the Hudson Bay Company. He also believed the British government was trying to restrict emigration to Canada to support the economy. This book
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Author: Andrei Maylunas
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Keywords: own, story, alexandra, nicholas, passion, lifelong
Number of Pages: 748
Published: 2005-05-01
ISBN-10: 0756789664
ISBN-13: 9780756789664
The love affair of Nicholas, the last Tsar of Russia, & his wife Alix, a granddaughter of Queen Victoria, was a lifelong passion with a tragic end. Just how deep the passion, how tragic their deaths, now becomes clear with the release of their letters & diaries. This book draws exclusively on their own words -- they always wrote to each other in English -- as well as those of their family & individuals close to them. The result is an enthralling saga of one big, powerful, tightly-knit international family which also included Queen Victoria, George V, King of Greece & Denmark & others. A turbul
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Author: Philip B. Heymann
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Keywords: waco, texas, affair, koresh, david, vernon, wayne, howell, investigation
Number of Pages: 66
Published: 1993-01
ISBN-10: 0788104616
ISBN-13: 9780788104619
Describes events during the stand-off from Feb. 28 to April 19, 1993, at Waco, Texas, between law enforcement agents & David Koresh & the Branch Davidians. Includes a brief history of the Branch Davidian sect; day-by-day chronology of the stand-of; documents & evidence developed during the investigation; evaluation of the handling of the Branch Davidian Stand-Off; report to the Deputy Attorney general on the events at Waco, Texas; lessons of Waco: proposed changes in federal law enforcement; & recommendations of experts for improvements in Federal law enforcement after Waco.
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Author: Johann Christoph Arnold
Publisher: Plough Publishing House
Keywords: drained
Number of Pages: 135
Published: 1999-03-29
ISBN-10: 0874869706
ISBN-13: 9780874869705
Gerald had an affair. And an illegitimate child. He carried these secrets for decades, doing his best to blot them from memory. He failed - but he achieved something far greater. Ann finally had everything she ever wanted: a loving spouse, a home to call her own, financial security, beautiful kids. Everything, that is, except happiness. She couldn’t figure out what was wrong. Until she stopped trying to outrun the ghosts of her abused childhood. Mick and Bridie’s only son was gunned down in Drumcree, Northern Ireland, and they wanted blood. So they tried suicide. But so
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