Word: liaison
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...confident Navy executive, the first woman ever promoted to serve as flag secretary and aide to an admiral, Rear Admiral Allen Hill. In the past, WAVE officers did work on staffs of admirals, but had far less authority than Byerly. She heads the admiral's staff and handles all liaison between his headquarters and the nine Pacific training commands. Her husband Kellie is also a lieutenant commander. When he once considered resigning and returning to the farm on which he was raised, she vetoed the idea. "I let him know that there was no way I was going back...
...P.F.L.P. apparently dispatched Carlos to Europe in the early '70s to coordinate its terrorist activities there. Among other things, he was the group's chief liaison with various terrorist bands, including West Germany's Baader-Meinhof gang, the Japanese Red Army, the Irish Republican Army and South America's Tupamaros. Carlos first appeared in the news last June when he made a dramatic escape from French counter-intelligence agents in Paris. On the alert for terrorists who use Paris as the center of their European operations, the Direction de la Surveillance du Territoire (DST) had been...
...news of the dead Knight's homosexuality was fully reported in the family papers. Later a sallow, sometime student, William Sage, 20, who is married, told Philadelphia police that he had carried on a five-year liaison with Knight in Detroit. Sage led police to a chest in Knight's apartment containing tape recordings of homosexual encounters, pictures of naked boys and Knight's diary-which ironically recorded the fact that as a result of analysis, Knight was beginning to like women...
Kissinger indicated that in order to "normalize" diplomatic relations with Peking, the U.S. may eventually pull its troops and the U.S. embassy out of Taiwan, replacing the embassy with a liaison mission. But Ford hardly wanted to make any compromises with Communist China last week that might further weaken his position with Republican conservatives. It was clear enough well before the trip, moreover, that the deteriorating health of Mao and Premier Chou En-lai precluded any serious dealings on the touchy subject of Taiwan. This awaits the successors to Mao and Chou and, as Ford and Kissinger may have reflected...
...Shifts. The Chinese sensitivity to any sign of U.S. softening toward the Soviet Union was vividly demonstrated after Ford sacked Defense Secretary James Schlesinger. Within hours of the announcement, high-ranking officials in China's Washington liaison office were seeking guidance on Capitol Hill. TIME has learned that they soon got a briefing from the office of Senator Henry Jackson, who is, like Schlesinger, a detente critic. Jackson sought to reassure the Chinese that the firing did not signal any automatic easing of U.S. firmness toward the Soviet Union. Ford and his men will seek to make that point...