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Indeed, Jerusalem's negotiating position today is pretty much what the Defense Secretary wants it to be. Last fall he singlehandedly scotched Kissinger's suggestion that Israel should unilaterally withdraw from parts of the Sinai as a friendship gesture to Egypt by threatening to resign from the Cabinet, an act that would have brought down Rabin's coalition government. Peres argued that Israel should make territorial concessions only if it got something specific in return, like a pact of nonbelligerency from the Egyptians, and eventually he brought around a majority of his 21 Cabinet colleagues...
Perhaps the biggest surprise was the selection of Reginald Maudling, 57, as shadow Foreign Secretary to replace Geoffrey Rippon, a Heath loyalist. Maudling had been forced to resign as Home Secretary in 1972 amid accusations of questionable business judgment.* Mrs. Thatcher obviously thought it worth the risk to bring back Maud-ling, a Tory heavyweight who negotiated for Britain's entry into the European Free Trade Area during the late 1950s and who narrowly lost the party leadership to Heath ten years ago. As Mrs. Thatcher explained, "It seemed to me quite absurd to have that great reservoir...
...besides other key spooks, his family and a handful of close friends. Now, the controversy over the CIA's domestic activities, in which Angleton's staff was accused of having spied massively and illegally on U.S. citizens, has made his name notorious. He was forced to resign from the CIA in December, and last week he testified for 2½ hours before the presidential commission investigating the CIA. He denied any role in the domestic spying, saying that the secret unit that ran the operation reported directly to then CIA Director Richard Helms and was only nominally under...
...Kline, a Maryland land speculator, testified that he had paid $25,000 to a loan officer at New York City's Bankers Trust Corp. in exchange for securing lines of credit. The following day the bank revealed that last November it had asked an officer, Stephen Benjamin, to resign for dealings with Kline. The land speculator, who bribed a number of Maryland state officials while Spiro Agnew was Governor, reportedly gave testimony that led to Agnew's resignation as Vice President...
...named Secretary of Labor. This array of talent alone should make the department second to none. Apparently that is not the case. One of the Nobel laureate economics professors, Russian-born Wassily Leontief, 68, has announced that, after 44 years on the faculty, he will resign from Harvard this summer to teach at New York University. His reasons for departing: the department's curriculum is "too narrow" and theoretical, and the senior faculty has lost touch with the students...