Word: interviews
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...cousin." He admitted he received $3,000 a month from the FBI for his services, plus perquisites like limousines and champagne. He said he had received a $100,000 advance from a publisher for a book about ABSCAM. Weinberg was asked if he had once said in an interview that he was "the world's biggest liar." "Yes," he readily admitted, but at the time he had been, well, lying...
Haddad remains something of an enigma. In an interview at Bennt Jbail, a Shi'ite Muslim village three miles inside the Lebanese border, the stocky, smiling officer claimed to belong to no political party and seemed to have no interest in joining forces with the Phalangist militia in northern Lebanon. Said he: "My only ambition is to see Lebanon united and peaceful. I don't have a clear idea of what is going on in Beirut." For Haddad, the biggest threat to Lebanon is the Syrians; he fears they want to annex the entire country. "Take the Syrians...
...time when his four-month-old majority-rule government has hit some embarrassing snags at home. His Minister of Manpower, Planning and Development, Edgar Tekere, awaits trial on a murder charge. His former military commander, Lieut. General Peter Walls, faces possible prosecution as a result of a BBC interview critical of the government. Anxious whites, meanwhile, continue to leave the country at record rates of up to 2,000 a month in the face of sporadic lawlessness and the increasingly Marxist tone of official commentary and TV programming...
Walls returned to Zimbabwe last week to face the gathering storm. "To stay away at this time would have appeared like an admission of guilt," he told TIME'S Peter Hawthorne. Other points made by Walls during an hour-long interview in the garden of his Salisbury home...
...hostages as spies, Ghotbzadeh's letter was both daring and provocative. One factor that allowed him to take such a stand is that he is a lame duck: he has pledged to step down as Foreign Minister once a Cabinet approved by parliament is named. In an interview for TIME with a Tehran-based journalist, Ghotbzadeh last week spoke with unusual candor about his suspicions of Soviet intentions, his skepticism about the prospects for Raja'i's government, and other matters. Excerpts...