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3 days ago · The diversion was undertaken by an obscure NSC aide, U.S. Marine Corps Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North, with the approval of McFarlane’s successor at the NSC, Rear Admiral John Poindexter. (North, as it was later revealed, had also engaged in private fund-raising for the Contras.)
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
4 days ago · NEW KENT — As he pointed out the window of his restored 17th-century plantation house, John Poindexter asked a visitor to pay particular attention to the bend of the Pamunkey River.
5 days ago · Vice Admiral John Poindexter reverted to his permanent grade of rear admiral in 1986, as he was not appointed by the Senate to another three-star post within 90 days after resigning as national security advisor to the president due to controversy surrounding the Iran-Contra affair, and was reassigned to the Navy staff until ...
2 days ago · Person of the Year (called Man of the Year or Woman of the Year until 1999) [1] is an annual issue of the American news magazine and website Time featuring a person, group, idea, or object that "for better or for worse ... has done the most to influence the events of the year". [2]
3 days ago · The developer planned to demolish the buildings, all constructed before 1850, and construct low-income housing. The newspaper was founded in 1892 by John H. Murphy, a formerly enslaved man, and when he passed away in 1922 it was the largest Black newspaper company in the country with 138 employees and a circulation of 14,000.
4 days ago · Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. ( ΑΦΑ) is the oldest intercollegiate historically African American fraternity. It was initially a literary and social studies club organized in the 1905–1906 school year at Cornell University but later evolved into a fraternity with a founding date of December 4, 1906. It employs an icon from Ancient Egypt ...
5 days ago · The brief predecessor to the SC’s Angeles Chapter Rock Climbing Section (RCS), the Junior Section hosted its 1st climbing session Nov. 5, 1933 at Eagle Rock, led by Glen and assisted by Dick Jones and John Poindexter.
