y the plane was checking weather in Russia. More recently, there was the insistence by the U.S. government that no American military arms were sold to Iran and that the profits from the sale were not put into the bank accounts of the so called Nicaraguan Contras; this prevailed long enough for one portion of the public to have the opinion that the U.S. government would not have engaged in such a scheme, while other portions of the public had the opinion, true, as it turned out, that the U.S. government did in fact do so. One reason behind the concealment of the American government's role in the scheme appears to have been that on one hand America wished to maintain an image to the world of fighting communism in Nicaragua, and on the other hand maintain the image that it would not negotiate with a terrorist state such as Iran. On still a "third hand," it came out in the Iran scandal that at the very time America was negotiating an arms deal with Iran, it was being rigid toward European countries that had indicated they would like to negotiate wit
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