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...Long ago, he called foreign policy his "strong suit" and the high points of his presidency have consisted of opening new and promising chapters in U.S. relations with old enemies. Never a particularly adroit campaigner at home, he has been boffo in such distant places as Peking, Moscow and Bucharest. Thus it is completely in character that the President this week is beginning a pellmell, week-long tour of five Middle East countries, with the hope of cementing friendships in a strategic region that until recent months had been largely hostile toward...
Died. Allal el Fassi, 65, Moroccan nationalist leader; of a heart attack; in Bucharest, Rumania. As founder and president of the Istiqlal (Independence) Party, Fassi led the movement that in 1956 freed Morocco from French rule. He urged the annexation of Mauritania and other adjacent lands into a greater Moroccan empire and long served as a respected conservative voice in his country's politics...
...with the problem. For example, there could be a United Nations-sponsored international birth control program, an expansion of fertilizer production, and the storing of adequate food reserves as a buffer against periodic poor harvests. Members of the United Nations hope to consider those proposals when they gather in Bucharest during August for a conference on population, and in Rome in November for a conference on food. Their task is formidable. Between now and the time they begin their deliberations, the world's population will have increased by 30 million...
Resident Russian correspondents in at least three East European capitals, Warsaw, Bucharest and Belgrade, have a pet theory about the Watergate affair, which is both unintentionally amusing as a bit of Byzantine fantasy and also revealing about the paranoia that still often underlies the Soviet view of the world. The theory goes like this...
...bars of the Alcron and the Yalta in Prague are notorious hunting grounds for the freelance free-enterprisers. At the Intercontinental in Bucharest, the girls sometimes cruise for clients in the elevators. At Warsaw's Europejski they are even more aggressive. Last May, during President Nixon's visit to Warsaw, two white-haired British correspondents were literally chased to their rooms by a bevy of miniskirted whores who spent hours unsuccessfully banging on their doors and bellowing entreaties in basic English...