Word: communiques
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...problem. Kosygin counseled Nasser not to risk a stoppage of the U.S. Food for Peace program-Washington is still sitting tight on this year's $150 million worth of grain-because Russia simply cannot afford to pick up the grocery bill. As a result, the joint Russo-Egyptian communiqué issued at the end of Kosygin's eight-day trip was notably mild in its criticism of U.S. activities...
Secret Huddle. Scarcely had the speech clattered through the Kremlin telex machines when Russia's Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev was airborne for a visit to Bucharest. For three days he huddled with Ceausescu in secret talks. Beyond the expectable communiqué concerning "subjects of mutual interest," outsiders could only guess at the real substance of the conversations. After all, there were plenty of signs that Rumania was taking an active role in European Communist affairs-a role that could only annoy Moscow. Premier Ion Gheorghe Maurer was in Geneva ostensibly for a "cure"-but possibly in some connection with...
...jejune Joyce; at his best he generates images like the navel of the demiurge itself. And the images reflect ideas. Gass is a trained thinker, a professor of philosophy at Purdue University, and in this fable he enlivens the weary old war between good and evil with curt communiqués and rakingly comic crossfire...
...west of Havana. Betancourt made his move. Locking the door that separates the flight deck from the passengers, he suddenly slugged the guard who stood just behind the pilot and copilot and ordered Captain Fernando Alvarez Perez to set a course for Miami. "From this moment," as a government communiqué later described it, Havana's "flight control, in combination with the air force and air defense, drafted a plan by which the pilot was to pretend he was flying directly to Miami, when in reality he would be maneuvering back toward Havana." Meantime, he was to continue...
...united opposition to white-ruled Rhodesia has proved beyond African capability. Pride and pretentiousness are part of the trouble, but last week in Nairobi, where Kenya's President Jomo Kenyatta and ten other African leaders sat down to discuss their problems, their goal was sensibly limited and their communiqué refreshingly modest...