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Through interviews with consultants and others involved in this network, TIME has pieced together details of one of the deals that is part of the massive investigation. Stuart Berlin, a key civilian contracting officer at the Pentagon, allegedly provided information involving an electronic-testing- device contract worth $100 million to a defense consultant who was a close friend. The information made its way to a Long Island firm that hoped to win the contract. In addition, Justice Department officials told TIME that they have specific, solid evidence that former Secretary of the Navy John Lehman last fall warned Melvyn Paisley...
...debtor nation, voices a mixture of concern and admiration. "No country is more important to our economic future than Japan," says Democratic Senator Bill Bradley of New Jersey. "You want Japan to assume more foreign policy responsibility in the world, but in partnership with the U.S. The key is to get them to assume more responsibility without getting them to rearm...
...many qualified Japanese seem reluctant to take jobs with international groups lest they slip a rung on the competitive career ladder at home. Though Japan buys about half the bonds issued by the World Bank, for example, few Japanese can be found in key positions there. The Japanese Finance Ministry, in fact, has been forced to set quotas of young staffers that Japanese banks must send to such international institutions...
...Middle East proposing peace can be a dangerous move. That lesson was forcefully driven home last week when bitter feuding broke out among Palestinian factions over an unusually conciliatory statement written by Bassam Abu Sharif, chief spokesman for Palestine Liberation Organization Chairman Yasser Arafat. Abu Sharif's key proposals: 1) direct negotiations between the P.L.O. and Israel over a future Palestinian state, and 2) a referendum in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip to prove that their Palestinian populations recognize the P.L.O. as their legitimate representative...
...irregular party conference since 1941. Many of the sessions will be broadcast live on television, and newspapers will reprint texts of speeches and delegate interviews. A press center is being established to provide Soviet and foreign journalists with daily briefings, access to high-level party officials, and meetings with key Gorbachev advisers...