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...TIME was always on my wish list," she says. Nevertheless, she began her career in a roundabout way. A Phi Beta Kappa at Connecticut College, she graduated in 1975 and spent a year in Japan as a Fulbright fellow, then worked at the Bank of Toyko as a liaison and operations manager. In 1978 she got her wish, when she was hired as an assistant marketing manager, preparing material for sales presentations, at TIME in New York City...
COVER Photograph for TIME by Anis Hamdani -- Gamma Liaison...
...book due out next month makes provocative disclosures about the tangled relationship between U.S. and Israeli intelligence services. According to Major General Avraham Tamir, a retired senior Israeli defense official quoted in Dangerous Liaison, the REAGAN ADMINISTRATION approved Israeli arms shipments to Tehran for use against Iraq in 1981, long before the Iran-contra affair. Authors Andrew and Leslie Cockburn say the transfers were part of a strategy to head off Soviet influence in the gulf region. The book also describes in detail Operation KK Mountain, in which the CIA secretly paid Israel as much as $20 million annually throughout...
...Deputy National Security Adviser to Bush, has assiduously cultivated key Senators. Though some Democrats vow to re-examine Gates' Iran-contra role, most Senators predict that he will be confirmed this time, barring some unexpected new evidence of wrongdoing. "Bob Gates was an exceptional deputy to Webster, an honest liaison to the congressional committees and an invaluable aide to the President in the White House," says Senator David Boren, the Oklahoma Democrat who chairs the intelligence committee. "I think he could be an outstanding CIA director...
...least neutralize the G.O.P.'s right wing, which had always viewed Bush with suspicion. "A lot of the high-echelon members of this Administration are considered to be in the moderate camp," says Republican national chairman Clayton Yeutter, "so Vice President Quayle serves the President as a very effective liaison to the more conservative segment of the party...