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There is still some dispute, however, over just when the committees must be told. Carter argues that the President should be allowed to withhold information about some especially delicate operations if prior disclosure would endanger lives or embarrass friendly lives or embarrass friendly governments. Some Senators consider that too wide a loophole...
...Administration suggested that the Olympics now scheduled for Moscow this summer should be moved elsewhere, which would severely embarrass the Kremlin. Said Vice President Walter Mondale: "This would permit athletes from around the world to hold that important event without politics but not in a setting where we are in effect granting legitimacy to a country that has just committed an outrageous and indecent act of aggression...
...major boycott or relocation of the Games would deeply embarrass and disappoint the Kremlin, which has tried ever since the early '60s to be named as host. Soviet leaders, notoriously insecure about their country's position in the world, view the Moscow Games as a way to greatly increase their nation's prestige, even as a way to legitimize their system. In the past three years, the Soviets have spent an estimated $375 million in constructing facilities. They are looking forward to tourist crowds of up to 300,000, plus, more important, world television audiences...
...Caribbean and elsewhere, claimed Castro last week, "we are being very discreet and trying hard not to embarrass Carter." He made the statement the night before he left New York, at an informal dinner for heads of U.S. news organizations, including Time Inc. Castro claimed that he once talked Panama's Omar Torrijos out of seizing the Canal when negotiations with the U.S. were stalled; that he is eager to begin pulling his troops out of Africa as soon as the situation in Namibia and Zimbabwe-Rhodesia is settled; and that Zbigniew Brzezinski is personally to blame...
...what may well be the year's funniest sequence. It consists simply of a very old woman, bent almost double under the weight of her senility, inching painfully and in total silence across a room to serve tea to a pair of gentlemen earnestly conversing, trying not to embarrass her by calling attention to her infirmity. Eventually she arrives at her destination, spills the contents of the tray as she sets it down, then departs as slowly and silently as she arrived. Her master and his guest gamely go along with the pretense that the retainer is as efficient...