Volume 36, Number 5 · March 30, 1989

A Tale of Two Governments

By Murray Kempton

Washington—The adversary process in criminal courtrooms is a device designed, however clumsily, to penetrate puzzles; but so far Oliver North's trial has mainly served to thicken the clouds around the riddle of just who he was.



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