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While insisting that he does not "have any recollec- tion" of the transfers, Mr. Baker suggested more than once during t1e program that the arms sales could have been "a favor to Israel" to help "Israel earn some money. " "We do cooperate with Israel on matters such as this," he explained. The Times report, quoting senior Reagan administra- tion officials, as well as Israeli officials, said the arms flow began after the Iranians released American hostages seized at the U.S. Embassy in Teheran in 1979. The hostages were freed on Jan. 20, 1981, the day Reagan was sworn into of- fice. Iran, locked in war with Iraq at the time, was des- perately in need of weapons and spare parts for the U.S.-made military equip- ment it acquired during the reign of the Shah. According to the Times report, the United States specifically authorized the Israeli sales for between six and 18 months. "But the United States watched them continue after that, even as the Reagan administration aggressively promoted a public campaign, known as Operation Staun- ch, to stop worldwide transfers of military goods to Iran," said the Times story, which was written by Seymour Hersh. Mr. Baker told "Face the Nation" that "the secretary of state is the person who is empowered to approve the export of technology." At the time of the alleged Israeli arms sales to Iran, Alexander Haig was U.S. secretary of state. In 1981, Mr. Haig denied "categorically" that U.S. military equipment was provided to Iran. But in a January 1991 PBS television interview, Mr. Haig acknowledged that Israel might have shipped some American arms to Iran "through the good offices of somebody in the White House staff." Officials at the Israeli Em- bassy here had no immedi- ate comment on the Times report. Israel served as the mid- dleman in a secret arms-for- hostages deal between the Reagan White House and Teheran, which burgeoned into the Iran-Contra scan- dal. But no U.S. hostages were being held by Iran or by Islamic groups under its in- fluence in 1981, when Israel allegedly sold it American arms with White House ap- proval. Mr. Hersh's report ap- peared as Congress prepared to investigate allegations that Reagan campaign offi- cials made a deal with Iran to hold the U.S. Embassy hostages captive until Reagan's inauguration. That allegation, which remains unproven, has been dubbed the "October sur- prise," a reference to fears in the Reagan camp that Presi- dent Jimmy Carter might engineer release of the hostages just before the 1980 election, greatly improving his chances for re-election. The Times report said interviews over the -last three months found no link between the Israeli arms sales to Iran and the "October surprise." Vote Quest Complicated Washington (JTA) — Patrick Buchanan's an- nouncement that he will challenge President Bush for the 1992 Republican presi- dential nomination will like- ly make it harder for the GOP to convince American Jewish voters that the party is not hostile to their inter- ests. Democrats had a similar problem trying to portray their party as pro-Jewish in 1984 and 1988, when the Rev. Jesse Jackson ran for the nomination. The Rev. Jackson, who was accused of