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TIME was already rolling off the presses on a Sunday five weeks ago when the exiled Shah of Iran quietly boarded a plane in Panama for his newest sanctuary in Egypt. Normally, such a late-breaking development would have to go unreported in those copies of the magazine produced in faraway Hong Kong. But no more. Only a week earlier TIME had begun transmitting its pages to the Far East at lightning speed via RCA'S Satcom II and the Comsat Intelsat IV, communications satellites some 20,000 miles above earth. Supplanting a dizzying combination of Hong Kong-bound...
...other prime contender is Bush, who in the view of one of his advisers "is in better shape with the true believers of the right than Howard Baker," because of Baker's vote for the Panama Canal treaties. Bush, who on Pennsylvania primary day was wearing gold cuff links bearing the vice-presidential seal (a gift from Nelson Rockefeller), has repeatedly brushed aside suggestions that he would settle for the No. 2 spot. Says he: "No way." But a close aide says that Bush might be willing to join the Reagan ticket in the end because of the Californian...
More recently, Bourguet has served as a legal adviser to the Iranian government. He helped prepare the extradition papers that Iran sent to Panama in its effort to capture the deposed Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, an effort that prompted the ailing Shah to flee to Egypt three weeks ago. In the course of his work for Tehran, Bourguet met in Paris on at least one occasion with Carter's closest aide, Hamilton Jordan...
Christian Voice. Zone, 30, and other California pastors got their political start by rallying behind a 1978 state referendum to bar openly homosexual schoolteachers. Since going national last year they have broadened their targets to include school busing and the Panama Canal treaty McAteer (against), Taiwan security and prosecution of welfare deadbeats (for). Three U.S. Senators and eleven Congressmen form an advisory committee. In its first year, the group claims to have enlisted 187,000 supporters, a fifth of them clergy, and it plans to spend $3 million in 1980. Voice has no tax exemption so it can be openly...
...discredited us because I think most people agree with me that the ex-tyrant's escape from Panama in itself was an admission of guilt and proof of the strength of our case-that is, a net moral victory for Iran...