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...weekend before, when he grandly announced that he would have a summit meeting with Khomeini in Paris, only to have the Ayatullah repudiate the conference. Said Khomeini: "I will not receive that illegal man." Actually, the Prime Minister was privately trying to negotiate an arrangement whereby he might resign in favor of a Khomeini-sanctioned transitional government that would preside over elections, a constituent assembly and a referendum on a new constitution. Bakhtiar said he had been negotiating with Khomeini's local representatives, but those plans may have already been jeopardized by the arrests of five leading journalists...
Khomeini's associates, including Karim Sanjabi, leader of the National Front, the main political opposition, believe that the Ayatullah might agree to use the present constitution as a device for the transition of power. "The army will go along with any government that is representative," says Sanjabi. "If Bakhtiar resigns, it is not difficult to find a solution based on a temporary government accepted by the people." At week's end, the Khomeini strategy seemed to be one of waiting for members of parliament and the regency council to resign. So far 72 out of 200 deputies in the legislature...
...with the giant Siemens electronics corporation in Coburg; and Gerhard Arnold, 43, an executive of a Munich computer company. None was as big a fish as Günter Guillaume, longtime former aide to Chancellor Willy Brandt, whose arrest for spying in 1974 eventually forced an embarrassed Brandt to resign. But all were professional specialists working in sensitive areas. Hauffe apparently had been active as a spy since 1951, Arnold since...
...often capable people. Stephen Guptill, 34, had just been appointed secretary of the office of elder affairs in Massachusetts when reporters learned that in applying for his first job Guptill had falsely claimed two degrees still on his resume. Said Guptill, when forced to resign: "I made a stupid mistake 14 years ago, and nine years of hard work and dedication to the elderly is being ignored...
...approval of Gyllenhammar's plan. Ironically, that was good news for Norway's Nordli. His minority Labor government faced increasing protests in the Storting (parliament) over the Swedish linkup and there were opposition threats of a no-confidence vote that could have forced him to resign. Reason for the resentment: the widespread feeling that Norway's prospective percentage of Volvo was not worth as much as Nordli was willing...