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...Beam in Moscow may have been humiliating, but at least it had no adverse effect on U.S.-Soviet relations. On the other hand, relations between Washington and Tokyo have gone awry ever since Kissinger went to Peking in 1971 without telling former Japanese Premier TASS Eisaku Sato what was afoot with HI Sato's Chinese neighbors. Even if rumors of Nixon's proposed visit had leaked, some critics say, it would have been less damaging in the long run than Japan's subsequent loss of face. One specific complaint of U.S. intelligence experts who resent Kissinger's excessive sense...
...conviction that "the provinces" are an integral part of "Metropolitan Portugal." Backed by powerful conservatives in the government and in the National Assembly, Thomaz pressured Caetano into sacking Spinola and his sympathetic boss General Francisco Costa Gomes. The move caused tremors in the armed forces and set rumors afoot that a military coup might be in the offing. Ultimately, a brave but ineffectual band of 200 soldiers marched on Lisbon; the protesters were easily disarmed and all troops in Portugal were ordered confined to barracks. Rather ignominiously, some garrisons were put in the custody of the National Republican Guard...
...private land. Since roughly 12 million sheep graze at least part of the time on federal land, wool growers soon may seek permission to use coyote poisons there. Before approving, the Government will want an accurate estimate of how many sheep are actually endangered and how many predators are afoot. Any coyote counters available...
...limitations, superficiality and self-delusions of documentary reportage are incisive. And the recognition that all but the best of documentary writers and journalists treated their subjects as pitiful objects of personal social conscience or else as occasions for autoeroticism bears looking into at a time when the movement's afoot again...
Clearly, something mysterious was afoot. While Ahmed Zaki Yamani, Saudi Arabia's oil minister, wandered about Europe promising a continued flow of oil to the Arabs' "friends" and privation to enemies, almost the opposite seemed to be happening. In Britain, Germany, Italy and other nations classified by the Arabs as friendly or neutral, serious energy shortfalls loomed. But in The Netherlands, the one Common Market nation on the Arab embargo list, some Christmas lights continued to blaze and visitors reported hotel rooms occasionally so toasty that windows had to be thrown open. Though the Dutch led Europe...