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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...White House took pains to state that Carter had no plans to hard-sell his visitors. Said a top Carter aide: "We do not intend to present specific American proposals, but we do want to hear what their ideas are for the remaining issues to be solved." White House Press Secretary Jody Powell made it clear that the President did not intend to re-enter the negotiations himself...
...been for the past year. Says a Western diplomat: "The Assembly can be a real bedlam. A lot will depend on how Banisadr handles it." Banisadr's authority may actually increase under the new system because he will have a Cabinet of his own choosing, whereas the present, 13-member Revolutionary Council includes many of his most powerful opponents. Says a senior government official: "You cannot operate under the constant threat of being stabbed in the back Meanwhile, Banisadr is trying to get a firm grip on the institutions of power As the country's newly appointed commander...
...known in Washington, more or less affectionately, as "the Crocodile" for his deceptively sleepy-looking gaze and sharp bite. He is 88 now. Henry Cabot Lodge is 77. Last week in Boston, the World Affairs Council, honoring Democrat Harriman for long and distinguished diplomatic service, asked Republican Lodge to present the award. The two have compiled more than 90 years of public service-including Harriman's stints as Ambassador to the Soviet Union and Britain and Lodge's tours as envoy to South Viet Nam and West Germany. In his acceptance speech, the Crocodile showed plenty...
...concurred in the recent decision to investigate Belgian Theologian Edward Schillebeeckx and to banish West Germany's Hans Küng from a Roman Catholic faculty. The church, Baum insisted to TIME'S Wilton Wynn, has a "just claim" on its theologians: "Our task is to present the message of Christ as transmitted by the Roman Catholic Church. The public has the right to know clearly what this message is, and what...
...Senate is working on a bill that would prohibit such cover, though it would not ban contractual or voluntary relations with individual missionaries. Though President Carter is very missionary-minded, his Administration favors the present method of self-regulation by the agency and is opposed to any legal ban on either cover or contracts. CIA Director Stansfield Turner stirred renewed controversy by admitting in testimony before a Senate committee that on three occasions he had already agreed to waive the CIA's rule against contracts with missionaries. There can be "unique circumstances," Turner said, in which clergymen...