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...There is a whole lot of information on company practices in South Africa no one will ever get anyway," she said. "If they can't do anything about it, why bother at all with the attempt?" she added...
...senior Administration official sees a danger that the U.S. can blame too many difficulties on Moscow. "There is an assumption that everything the Soviets do is an attempt to get the United States or disadvantage us," says he. "That is a gross oversimplification. We often create problems by exaggerating Soviet influence." This official does not doubt that the Soviets like to exploit any advantage they can find, or that they would like to divide up the world into spheres of influence, but he does not interpret this as a strategy of conquest. "The group in power there is quite cautious...
...area has cooperation been pursued more determinedly than in the attempt to control nuclear arsenals. While the progress at SALT often reflects other aspects of the Washington-Moscow relationship, as last month's delaying tactics in Geneva demonstrated, there is little doubt that both sides genuinely want an agreement. Brezhnev seems eager for it and apparently sees the signing of SALT II as a fitting capstone to his long career as a Soviet leader...
...called Chinese model of political structure, and the mass killings of people in Kampuchea were nothing but the Chinese "Cultural Revolution" in action on foreign territory. Chinese propaganda is making a lot of noise about the intervention of Viet Nam into Kampuchean affairs. It is a gross attempt to distort the real state of affairs. It's another example of the anti-Vietnamese, chauvinistic nature of the policy of the present Chinese leadership, which also organizes other anti-Viet Nam provocations...
...what appeared to be a cautious attempt to avoid inciting the army, Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini, the opposition's exiled religious leader, last week issued new orders to his followers to avoid "indiscriminate violence." He also declared that he bore "no hostility" toward countries that might give the Shah asylum and would allow continued oil shipments to the West. "Our relations with the U.S.," he added, "would be good relations as long as the U.S. stops supporting the Shah and leaves us to decide our own destiny...