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...reelection, Romney was on the phone with New York's Rockefeller, Percy, Hatfield and Brooke; Reagan called him to discuss prospects for party unity. Later he flew to Washington to appear on Meet the Press and to confer with veteran G.O.P. strategists...
Coming Home. Adding to the intrigue, Foy Kohler, U.S. Ambassador to Moscow, announced that he would return home this week to confer with Secretary of State Rusk on matters that are sure to include the Moscow murmurings. The same subject was coming in for attention among Iron Curtain diplomats. "It would, of course, be wrong to attribute it to the American bombings," a Communist diplomat told TIME last week, "but the fact is that the passing of time is making North Viet Nam more ready to enter into peace talks...
Charles de Gaulle climbed aboard an Air France DC-8 last week and headed eastward around the world. His trip was to last 19 days, and it would undoubt edly bring the glory of enlightened Gaul to three continents. In Ethiopia he was to confer with Emperor Haile Selassie on the future of Africa. In Cambodia he was to meet Prince Norodom Sihanouk, presumably to condemn the war in Viet Nam. In Tahiti he was to watch the detonation of the eighth nuclear device of his celebrated force de frappe...
...Conference at Campobello. Johnson finally called it a day after a speech in Lewiston, Me., then boarded the Northampton, a seaborne command post crammed with communications gear, in Portland for an overnight cruise. From the ship's deck, he was to helicopter to meet Pearson at Campobello, F.D.R.'s summer retreat. Johnson and Pearson planned to confer privately for an hour, touching on such topics as the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and Viet Nam, where Canada is one of three nations on the International Control Commission, then to lay the cornerstone for a reception center in front...
...clubs, the CAB complaints pointed out, are "wholly owned and controlled and managed" by the lines and not the members. They provide "special and superior services not otherwise or generally available" and constitute "unjust discrimination" because they "confer special favor and advantage to selected passengers" who have paid no more than ordinary travelers...