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ANKARA, Turkey: The first Islamic party to form a government in modern Turkey narrowly won a vote of confidence Monday under a leader who had promised to yank the staunch U.S. ally out of NATO and evict thousands of strategic U.S. troops from the country. But since his election as prime minister last month, Necmettin Erbakan has backed away from his opposition to the West and said that attaining full membership in the European Union would be one of his party's "ultimate goals." TIME's James Wilde reports from the Turkish capital: "Erbakan has made a 180-degree turn...
...last week by Gary Aldrich, a former FBI agent who spent five years assigned to the White House. He describes Livingstone as someone who seemed to be executing orders from higher-ups--his bosses during the Administration's first year were Kennedy and White House counsel Bernard Nussbaum, both staunch Hillary Clinton allies--in a White House that repeatedly violated the rules surrounding background investigations of White House employees. In an account that appeared on the editorial page of the Wall Street Journal, Aldrich charged that staff members considered trustworthy by the Clintons could avoid background checks while permanent White...
...Buell, a staunch advocate of a greater ethnic studies presence in the curriculum, chaired a Faculty committee on ethnic studies that recommended to the Faculty Council in 1993 that Harvard establish a standing committee in ethnic studies and hire more faculty specialists in the field...
...says TIME's Doug Waller. "He was the first agent of a kind of 'Glasnost' for the CIA, and was very unpopular inside the agency because of that." Dismissed by President Ford because the White House believed he was cooperating too freely with congressional investigators, Colby has become a staunch arms control activist, working for many liberal causes and organizations. His latest venture involves an interactive CD-ROM spy game, "Spycraft: The Great Game," where he plays himself opposite ex-KGB General Oleg Kalugin...
...says TIME's Doug Waller. "He was the first agent of a kind of 'Glasnost' for the CIA, and was very unpopular inside the agency because of that." Dismissed by President Ford because the White House believed he was cooperating too freely with congressional investigators, Colby has become a staunch arms control activist, working for many liberal causes and organizations. His latest venture involves an interactive CD-ROM spy game, "Spycraft: The Great Game," where he plays himself opposite ex-KGB General Oleg Kalugin...