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...Oval Office and told him, "as your President and Commander in Chief," to "unclog the distribution system." Gleason promised no more than to discuss the request with his membership. But the Government itself is moving to cut down cultural exchanges; last week it made it known that it would cancel a Washington exhibition of artworks from the Hermitage Museum in Leningrad...
...being handled by the Russian Travel Bureau-Olympic Travel, a U.S.-owned firm based in New York City. According to its president, E. Wallace Lawrence, some of the deposit money has already been sent on to the Soviet Union. If the U.S. withdraws from the Games and tourists cancel their reservations, Lawrence will attempt to negotiate reimbursements with Moscow; in any case, he promises to refund any funds still...
When it came to taking direct action in support of the U.S. embargo, however, many U.S. allies proved skittish. Two of the other major grain exporters?Canada and Australia?agreed not to increase their sales to the Soviets, but they would not cancel any existing contracts. The other big exporter, Argentina, refused to cooperate at all with Washington. The West Europeans are not selling grain to the Soviets, but refused to curb their sales of high technology. Said French Foreign Minister Jean François-Poncet: "We have no intention of modifying our commercial relations with the U.S.S.R." Added a German...
...This bus is half empty. It doesn't look like anyone else is going to come. I don't have the money to send a half-empty bus to Washington. We're going to have to cancel the trip...
...Angeles? The question echoes more loudly now that the U.S. no longer boasts strategic superiority. As Kissinger put it in Brussels, "It is absurd to base the strategy of the West on the credibility of the threat of mutual suicide." With U.S. and Soviet strategic nuclear forces tending to cancel each other out, Washington needs adequate nonatomic forces to counter threats that could range from an armored invasion of Germany to a brushfire war in the Third World. Says Jones: "If you don't have the capability to respond around the world to different crises, then the risks...