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...military hardware show where they'll be selling everything from thumbscrews to missiles." At the Hyatt stockholders' meeting last week, Benton delivered an impassioned eight-minute lecture on corporate morality. Senator Charles Percy and Representative Abner J. Mikva have asked the sponsors to cancel the exhibition...
Moscow's dismay over the growing links between Washington and Peking is going to be a longtime problem for U.S. policymakers, and could cancel out any gains that might result from Teng's visit. Vance argued two weeks ago that the Carter-Teng summit will "increase the chances of maintaining a stable equilibrium among the U.S., Japan, China and the Soviet Union." But Soviet officials do not see it that way, and as Teng touched down in Washington, the delicate triangular relationship among the U.S., China and the U.S.S.R. was hanging in the balance...
...CENTO." Iran's military role will necessarily be reduced, because the country will no longer have the economic means to make huge arms purchases. Bakhtiar also promised to review who may buy Iran's oil. This was interpreted to mean that the National Iranian Oil Corp. would cancel deliveries to Israel, which now depends on Tehran for more than 40% of its petroleum needs, and to South Africa, which imports 90% of its oil from Iran. Even if the oil market could be so neatly manipulated, neither country would immediately suffer from the threat. Both have huge...
...four or five different conversations. For a while I listened to an elderly woman complain to the young man beside her about the constant snow. It was the worst winter she could remember, and today she was especially angry because the weather had forced her bridge club to cancel its weekly party...
When the White House forthrightly announced that Jimmy Carter was in severe pain from a bad case of hemorrhoids and that surgery was being considered, inevitably there were some jokes. It is not an ailment an individual elects to advertise unless, like Carter, he must in order to cancel a day's schedule without giving the stock market a heart attack. There was also a great deal of sympathy, tacit and expressed. Wrote one Egyptian: "May Allah cure you. This illness should have been inflicted on an unjust leader rather than you, O Carter...