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...bridges to the Hill. MacGregor has been given direct access to Nixon, hurdling the formidable staff barriers in Nixon's outer offices, and the President has promised to cut him in early on all legislative plans. Frequent bipartisan meetings with Nixon over drinks or at breakfast are promised to confer on legislation before combat is joined on the floor and positions harden. Texan John Connally is also expected to turn his persuasive charms on the legislators...
...visits factories and speaks on TV and radio. He has fired the country's trade union boss and the Szczecin party chief. Well aware that 95% of his countrymen are at least nominal Roman Catholics, he is openly courting the church; his Premier, Piotr Jaroszewicz, is expected to confer with Stefan Cardinal Wyszinski, the primate of Poland, in the near future-the first such meeting in almost a decade...
...Jarring's discussions with Israel, Egypt and Jordan resumed last week after a four-month break, angry Arabs protested that Jarring had indeed been hijacked-by the Israelis. Since Egypt and Jordan refuse to deal directly with Israel, Jarring planned to confer with representatives of each government in his 38th-floor office in Manhattan's U.N. building. But much of the week was consumed by his 11,344-mile round-trip flight to Israel. With the Middle East cease-fire due to expire Feb. 5, Jarring hopes to make enough progress so that both sides will agree...
Something Less. Progress in the negotiations, if any, is likely to come with glacial slowness. Jarring will likely use his 38th-floor office at the U.N.'s Manhattan headquarters as his base. Initially at least, he will confer separately with the U.N. ambassadors of Egypt, Jordan and Israel. Eventually, Israel hopes to move the talks closer to home-say to Cyprus or Geneva-to elevate them to the foreign minister level and to hold them face-to-face...
...purpose of his trip to Vietnam will be to "assess the progress of the Vietnamization program; to assess the military assistance programs; and also to confer with Gen. Creighton W. Albrams on what lies ahead as far as further troop reductions" are concerned, he said...