Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: MONDAY, June 18, 1990                   TAG: 9006190372
SECTION: EDITORIAL                    PAGE: A6   EDITION: METRO 
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WITH POOR MEMORY, ACCURATE MEMOIRS?

How is it possible for this ex-president to write his memoirs? During his testimony in the Poindexter trial, he failed to recognize his own chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the rebel leader Calero, with whom he had met face to face at the White House. Furthermore, he replied in the negative to some 150 inquiries as to his recollections about Iran/Contra.

Is the old boy still being sedated? Ah, yes, he remembers and so does his successor. They are up to their eyebrows in underhanded maneuvering, all to keep the explosive truth from erupting. An impeachmemnt, on the heels of a near one, could be calamitous, to say the least.

Cap it and forget it. Those good old GOP boys in Washington can do no wrong (tongue-in-cheek).

\ GENE EVANS\ ROANOKE