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Miss Israel: As for Golda Meir, Assad told Sheehan that" 'one of the weaknesses I discovered in Dr. Kissinger was his special love of that woman. It struck me as strange that this university professor and Secretary of State was unable to conceal such a furious affection. And for your information, he used to describe her as "Miss Israel." ' Henry's Revenge: "He was furious with the Israelis [after his March 1975 shuttle failed], and he took their refusal very personally - as having been directed not only at the U.S. but above all at him. For weeks...
...look" of Communism genuine? Some political observers think it could be and argue that bringing Communists into Western governments might speed their conversion from revolutionary, potentially disruptive outsiders to evolutionary insiders. It might also widen the gap between the local parties and Moscow. The Soviets, in fact, do not conceal their irritation with the independence shown by some of their Western comrades. Soviet Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev recently complained that "some have begun to interpret [proletarian internationalism] in such a way that little is left to internationalism...
...report any evidence of bribery. They seem to have been singularly incurious about the foreign accounts of some companies that were later found to have made payoffs; they would have an incentive to look harder if they knew they might be accused of helping the company to conceal a crime. Successful prosecutions of some American executives for bribery might even embarrass foreign governments into tightening up on the venal practices of their own businessmen...
...does not seem proud of its corporate connections. Last week, the Massachusetts Attorney General's office took Bic's to court and obtained a conseint judgment to force the store not to conceal its Brigham's ownership from customers. According to Paula Gold, chief of the state Consumer Protection division and attorney in the case, Bic's had "failed to disclose the true nature of its enterprise," an "unfair and deceptive practice" prohibited by the state Consumer Protection...
...amount of elegant screens, Oriental cosmetics and Kabuki finesse can conceal the simple-mindedness of that line of thought...