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Clerides is resigned to a bizonal arrangement, but will participate in a session of talks slated for July only if Rauf Denktash, the Turkish Cypriot leader, remains open to his ideas for a central government. The Greek community aims to avert the possibility of an eventual union between their counterparts' federal state and the Turkish mainland by granting substantial power to the central government...
...Ranieri Mazzilli, 65, Acting President of Brazil briefly during the 1960s; following surgery; in Sao Paulo. Mazzilli first occupied the presidential palace during a tense 1961 impasse (when conservative soldiers threatened to block the accession of Leftist Vice President Joào Goulart) helping to reconcile the conflict and avert civil war. He again served as President-for twelve days-following the 1964 overthrow of Goulart...
Hoping to avert a mass exodus, the government has banned travel abroad, and passports are issued only for "special cases." To qualify for that category, a bribe of $2,000 or more is needed. Even so, the passport office is crammed with applicants. When a rumor swept the city that Australia was granting unlimited visas to South Vietnamese, a massive crowd snarled traffic in front of the Australian embassy. After the 1954 truce, as many as 50,000 Vietnamese settled in France, which many Vietnamese regard as a cultural mother country. Last week the French embassy was again besieged...
...Cooperation and Development, which embraces all the leading industrial nations, was predicting that its members would post a small average increase in real gross national product during 1975. A few months ago it scaled down its projection to zero growth; now it is estimating a decline of 1.5%. To avert an even worse slide, some nations that have made headway in combatting rapid price rises are, like the U.S., moving gingerly to restimulate their economies. The situation in some of the most important nations...
...itself? The nation's fundamental foreign policy interest is of course survival as a free society. This means avoiding nuclear war, through 1) maintaining adequate U.S. armaments, 2) pursuing detente and its arms-limiting efforts like the SALT negotiations, and 3) as part of the foregoing, trying to avert local conflicts that could turn into nuclear war. A second fundamental U.S. foreign policy interest is to bolster allies and friends who share America's strategic, economic and (ideally) political goals. Obviously, in furthering these interests, some nations or groups of nations are far more important...