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...latest American-French rift, sadly enough, reopened old wounds that appeared to be healing. In contrast to his predecessors, Giscard has made a conscientious effort to defuse tensions between Paris and Washington. He has, for example, been far less critical of Carter's economic policies than Schmidt. French military officials now work more closely with their NATO counterparts than they have in years. The U.S. and France have also smoothly coordinated their efforts in Africa. American planes carried the French troops that helped put down the rebellion in Zaire's Shaba province in 1978. The trouble...
...main disagreements had been an American-French dispute over whether NATO allies were obligated to consult one another on major issues affecting their security. The U.S. felt aggrieved last fall when the Europeans made hurry-up oil deals with the Arabs without talking to Washington first. The French said that the U.S. had no automatic consultation rights. In Ottawa the problem was neatly papered over. The members pledged to consult each other, but only after Kissinger vowed that the declaration was not legally binding. He then smoothly predicted that from now on there would be "a desire to consult." That...
...French leader personally received U.S. Secretary of State Dean Rusk at Elysee Palace in the first high level American-French encounter since De Gaulle turned his back last January on a U.S. plan for a multination nuclear force in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization...
...currently flocking to Peru, drawn by the country's cluster of virgin (i.e., unclimbed) peaks ranging up to 20,000 ft. or more. In recent months, two major expeditions have been preparing assaults on the spectacular snowcrest of Salcantay, 20,551 ft. above sea level. One, an American-French group, has been reconnoitering the peak in an airplane; the other, a Swedish-Italian group, has been warming up by scaling other Peruvian slopes...
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