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...House. He also performs special tasks for the President. For example, Lance, among others, was given the job of phoning key businessmen to tell them-before the news was announced-that Carter had decided to nominate William Miller as Federal Reserve Board chairman. When the State Department tried to withdraw Lance's diplomatic passport after he left office, the White House intervened to let him keep it, because, some Carter aides insisted, the President might send Lance on foreign missions in the future...
...shut-down has caused all academic deadlines for the beginning of the semester to be moved back. Applications for House transfers are due Monday at 4 p.m., study cards next Friday, and applications to drop courses and withdraw from courses will be due March 13 and March 27, respectively, Dean Fox said...
...covert CIA operations can ?or should?be ruled out. "There is a mean, dirty, back-alley struggle going on in which many other governments are participating," says former Secretary of State Dean Rusk. "If we withdraw unilaterally, they aren't going to stop. We must maintain a first-rate covert capability...
...week's end Sadat gave a tough speech before the Egyptian parliament, in which he emphasized that the peace talks had collapsed because Israel refused to express its willingness to withdraw from Arab territory. Sadat acknowledged that the Israeli people had shown "in the most unmistakable human manner" their desire for peace, but he accused their government of deceit and said he had threatened war if Israel insisted on keeping its settlements in the Sinai (see box). "I will not allow a single settlement," Sadat said he told Israeli Defense Minister Ezer Weizman last month, "even if this requires that...
...principal peace negotiator, no leader in the past decade has tried harder than Hussein to reach an agreement with Israel. The King looks back on his efforts as failures: "Ever since 1967, we have made it clear-before the 1973 war-that if Israel were willing to withdraw from territory occupied in 1967, we would be ready to negotiate or do anything to achieve that end. Far from getting a promise, we did not succeed even in getting a disengagement with Israel in the Jordan Valley...