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...existed since the cease-fire began. Dissatisfied with U.S. peace efforts, the Egyptians hope to sway opinion in the U.N. General Assembly, where there is a built-in anti-Israel majority. Ideally, the Egyptians would like to achieve a U.N. vote for economic sanctions against Israel, and an arms embargo that would embarrass the U.S., Israel's largest supplier...
Facing that reality, Britain last week reached a compromise agreement with the breakaway white-supremacist government of Rhodesia. After six years of coaxing and outright pressure, including an economic embargo, London agreed to permit Rhodesia's return to colonial status just long enough to be granted official independence. It was the issue of independence, which Britain refused to grant until provision was made for some form of black majority rule, that led Premier Ian Smith to cut Rhodesia loose from its ties to Crown and Commonwealth six years ago with his unilateral declaration of independence...
...Assistant Secretary of State Joseph Sisco called in both the Indian and Pakistani ambassadors and stressed that the situation must be immediately defused. The Administration announced that it was revoking $3,600,000 worth of arms licenses to Pakistan; the licenses had been approved before Richard Nixon imposed an embargo on new arms sales to Islamabad last March...
...announced plans to cut back on benefits for immigrants and on the elaborate pageantry planned for Israel's 25th anniversary celebrations. The Treasury is so hard up that Israel was even ready to abandon its claim to the 50 Mirage aircraft held in France under an arms embargo imposed by Charles de Gaulle at the start of the 1967 war. Paris announced last week that it would buy back the planes, which originally cost $67 million...
Photography has long been alien to the Fogg's didactic galleries of art classics. Whether this embargo was nurtured by cautious skeptics of the photographic medium as an artistic medium--cautious guardians of academic certainty--or by myopic observers of artistic development, its repeal is apparent in the Fogg's first representative showing of their own photographic collections. Master Photographs asks its audience to view these works on a level of creative competence equal to that of the paintings lining neighboring walls, but not always with the same aesthetic semantics applied to painting...