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...power. In the mid '70s Cave served in Tehran as deputy CIA station chief, and the Shah took a personal liking to the suave agent who spoke fluent Farsi. Cave retired from the CIA shortly after the Shah was overthrown. Yet on the arms-laden U.S. cargo plane that flew former National Security Adviser Robert McFarlane into Tehran last May 28 to establish the first high-level U.S. Government contact with Iran in years, there again was Cave, representing...
...felt like the second period really flew by," said Sasner...
...expecting more to come, investors pulled their money out of takeover-target stocks and instead poured their cash into stabler, less controversial shares. Nevertheless, takeover artists got back some of their nerve and launched a flurry of new merger bids. All the while, angry accusations flew back and forth as the players in the widening controversy -- investors, raiders, regulators and legislators -- debated who was to blame for the state of affairs and what should be done to clean...
...Gorbachev flew home, officials in New Delhi and Moscow released a joint statement noting the "similarity in the positions of India and the U.S.S.R. on major world issues." Once again, the statement emphasized the urgency of nuclear disarmament...
Shultz's return to the fold, however, was balanced by a highly damaging defection. As National Security Adviser, Robert ("Bud") McFarlane had begun the secret diplomatic contacts with Iran, and pursued them on the President's behalf even after his resignation last December. In May he flew into Tehran on a secret mission -- nestling, he now admits, among crates of weapons. Yet McFarlane told the Washington Post in an interview published Thursday, "I think it was a mistake to introduce any element of arms transfers into it." Indeed, the Post account had him advising Reagan in a bedside conference...