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...have lost their only real friend in high Administration councils. Says General Electric Chairman Reginald Jones: "Bert Lance was one who was quite close to the President, never failed to return a call that was made to him, never failed to grant us an interview, and always was a conduit through which our thinking could reach the President...
...been the Kremlin's man in Washington since J.F.K.'s day, as a "Kissinger holdover" and wanted to "cut him down a peg or two" by opening a parallel back-channel in Moscow. When Vance pressed Soviet leaders to use U.S. Ambassador Malcolm Toon as a conduit for SALT proposals, they balked.) But even on the back-channel there was little hard bargaining until the recent talks with Gromyko. Though both sides made compromises, Moscow seemed to bend the most. The U.S. had already dribbled out many of its concessions during the past nine months...
...afternoon when attention is drawn to a "gold seam"?a flood of currency?spilling out of Moscow and into Southeast Asia. Is it bankrolling enemy operatives? Is it used to push heroin in the People's Republic of China? Is Drake Ko, an amoral Hong Kong millionaire, a conduit? Drake's brother Nelson is one of the two dozen most important men in Peking and perhaps also a Karla mole, one even more important than Haydon had been. Are the siblings estranged? Or is their relationship thicker then blood? Smiley backtracks through archives and files to find names, places...
...threatening to them." "Them" refers to the Georgia Mafia led by Hamilton Jordan and Powell. Midge insists that they do not close her out of the action: "The only place they don't invite me is to the men's room." She is more a conduit and an expediter than a policymaker, but sometimes she can see direct results; for example, the President increased day-care provisions in the welfare package after she relayed to him the concerns of the "women's coalition...
...begun. In retrospect, Haley firmly believes it was more than his own perseverance that got the book finished. "However this sounds," he says, "it was one of those things that God in his infinite wisdom and in his time and way decided should happen. I feel I'm a conduit through which this is happening. It was just something that was meant to be. I say this because there were so many things that had to happen over which I had no control. And if any one thing hadn't happened, then this could not have come together...