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...Tory Prime Minister Edward Heath has spoken acidly of Washington's role in the monetary crisis; he scoffs that the U.S. believes it still has the West on a leash. More than any of his NATO allies, Heath is suspicious of Soviet moves toward detente in Europe. At Bermuda, he will warn Nixon not to get trapped into any unintentional commitments in Moscow on reduction of NATO and Warsaw Pact troop levels; he may also ask Nixon's aid in his attempts to get France back into the European defense effort. Nixon will be pleased, however, to find...
...British Prime Minister Edward Heath the following week in Bermuda; > West German Chancellor Willy Brandt, who will come to Key Biscayne, Fla., in late December; > Japanese Premier Eisaku Sato, who will visit San Clemente in January; >Canada's Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, almost certainly, at some point not yet determined...
...United Nations Headquarters in Manhattan as the big powers sought some way to defuse the explosive confrontation. On Thanksgiving Day, Richard Nixon phoned Britain's Prime Minister Edward Heath. The President discussed the Indian-Pakistani situation with the British leader, as well as their decision to meet in Bermuda in December. U.S. Ambassador to Moscow Jacob Beam visited the Soviet Foreign Ministry twice during the week to urge the Russians, who had become India's chief sponsors, to help stop the fighting...
...Ginger hovered indecisively, Stormfury's scientific director, a soft-spoken meteorologist named R. Cecil Gentry, recommended an attack. Taking off from fields along the East Coast, Bermuda and Puerto Rico, 16 planes headed straight into the thick of the storm, the longest-lived hurricane on record. While instrument-packed planes monitored the tricky "bombing" runs, an Air Force C-130 transport and two U.S. Navy A-6 Intruder jets flying at 22,000 feet dropped hundreds of small explosive cylindrical canisters that sprayed tiny particles of silver iodide in the area outside the eye of the hurricane...
...Luxembourg been able to win while appearing to lose? By be- coming, as a U.S. Department of Commerce report has said, what "may be the fastest-growing financial center of the world." While Bermuda, the Bahamas and The Netherlands Antilles loudly proclaim themselves tax havens, Luxembourg has quietly become a veritable tax heaven. Unlike any other Common Market country, it imposes practically no taxes on holding companies. Luxembourg now has more such enterprises (2,300) than it has soldiers (550). Du Pont, Uniroyal, Olivetti, Amo- co and other multinational giants have set up holding companies there and pay dividends...