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...these all-important details are likely to be cleared up this week during a meeting in Vienna of the Arabs and representatives of other oil-producing countries. But they remained shrouded in mystery last week because the Arabs were going through diplomatic contortions to maintain a façade of unity despite deep divisions. For weeks Egypt and Saudi Arabia have been trying to persuade the other Arab nations to lift the oil embargo in recognition of Secretary of State Henry Kissinger's effort to arrange an Arab-Israeli settlement. But they had met strong opposition from Algeria, Syria...
Acrimony and pique have been building up behind the façade of the Atlantic Alliance for months. Last week they erupted, exposing American-European relations at their worst in years. What triggered the blowup was an informal talk that Secretary of State Henry Kissinger gave to about 225 wives of Congressmen at the State Department. Apparently unaware that journalists were present and thinking that his remarks would be off the record, Kissinger abandoned the carefully measured phrases of diplomacy of which he is a grand master...
...Burgundy was such an impassioned buyer that his collection required a staff of 18 guards and varlets. In 1461, at the coronation of Louis XI, Philip gave the citizens of Paris a crushing display of his wealth by hanging tapestries by the bale from his town-house façade, "such a multitude of them that he had them hung over one another," as one chronicler noted...
...profile of Harbor Bridge. Any structure built on the point would be thrust forward in a vast parenthesis of sea and air, displayed like sculpture on a plinth, and visible from almost every angle of the harbor. It would not be part of a street-not, therefore, "façade" architecture...
Tanks, in fact, were advancing past his window−just across Constitution Square from the beleaguered Moneda, the Presidential Palace−and raking the hotel's façade with gunfire; Chilean army fighter-bombers were streaking overhead. For a while, guests were ordered into the basement for safety; when Eisendrath returned to his room, he found machine gun bullets lodged in his ceiling...