Word: clearings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Mexican Foreign Ministry that was preparing for Carter's trip visited the State Department, the Immigration and Naturalization Service and the Department of Energy. Wherever the officials went, they got a different reading on Carter's intentions. They reported home that the U.S. "apparently has no clear or positive policy ready, either for Mexico or the rest of Spanish-speaking America." Indeed, some aides thought Carter's final decisions on several major matters might actually have to be made during the 4½-hour flight to Mexico City. Nonetheless, the broad outlines of what he will seek...
...like 26 other nations, has maintained its embassy in Tel Aviv since 1948, because it does not consider Israel to have clear title to Jerusalem as a capital. To avoid political complications, the embassy deals with Israeli matters, the smaller Jerusalem consulate deals with Arabs...
...both a major source of oil-second in importance only to Saudi Arabia-and a businessman's bonanza, with a powerful appetite for arms, machinery, factories, cars, computers and countless other products from the West and Japan. Last week the extent of the double jeopardy became startlingly clear...
...confusion, however, emerge some clear rules: be patient, be friendly, and above all be prepared. "For a negotiation that would take six months some place else, anticipate that it will take at least two months longer in China," advises Eric Kalkhurst, North Asia sales director for Fluor Corp., which has won a fat contract to develop a Chinese copper mine. And that is after a delegation visits Peking; wangling an invitation to go there often takes much longer. Some deals signed last fall were the fruit of contacts that were made as early...
...main academics in the anticult lineup were Harvard Psychiatry Professor John Clark and University of Washington Law Professor Richard Delgado. Clark raised frightening specters of suicide, "uncontrolled violence," trances and total loss of memory, even distorted sense of smell (unexplained), among cultists. He made it clear that he saw the cultists as mindless zombies who pose a clear threat to democratic societies. "There are armies of willing, perfectly controlled soldiers," he told the assorted Senators and Representatives. "The level of public nuisance is so high that Government must act before it is too late...