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...Administration tends to dismiss European complaints about U.S. policy, and some White House officials are openly contemptuous about the West European leaders' criticisms. Groans one White House aide: "It's a classic pattern. Whenever West European leaders are under political pressure at home, they get vocally nationalistic, carping at the ever available Americans." To be sure, Giscard's outbursts have been
...frontier infiltrations and espionage attempts had forced Cairo to teach Libya's erratic strongman, Muammar Gaddafi, a lesson in good manners. Rather like a stern uncle rebuking a wayward nephew, President Anwar Sadat described Gaddafi as "a second Napoleon" and "just a child"-inspiring Tripoli spokesmen to dismiss the Egyptian President as "a Zionist tool...
Most professional pollsters, jurists and prosecutors in Cleveland dismiss Perk's poll as far less than objective. Among other things, the mayor prefaced his questionnaire with a plea "to have evidence to present in court which will make it unlawful to peddle obscene material in Cleveland." Perk, not so incidentally, plans to run for re-election in November...
...were defiant and angry in defeat. Some homosexuals hugged and kissed in front of the cameras. One of the leaders was Leonard Matlovich, a Viet Nam War hero and the former Air Force sergeant who deliberately provoked a discharge in 1975 to challenge the service's right to dismiss a man for homosexuality (TIME cover. Sept. 8. 1975). Matlovich led a crowd of followers singing a version of We Shall Overcome and launched into Anita Bryant's favorite tune. Battle Hymn of the Republic...
Serious students of Middle Eastern affairs dismiss Erdman's scenario as wildly improbable, but his book is still being bought by many people who do not ordinarily purchase thrillers. Known readers include many of the corporate executives who attended the Time Inc. Energy Conference in Williamsburg, Va.; Saudi Arabian Minister of Industry and Electricity Ghazi Al-Qusaibi ("I thought it was fun reading, but I certainly don't take it seriously"); and some diplomats at the Iranian embassy in Washington. The book is banned in Iran itself, but Western visitors keep being asked by Iranian friends to bring...