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Kissinger, said Nixon, disparaged then Secretary of State William Rogers as a "leaker," and soon outmaneuvered the Secretary and took control of foreign policy. In Nixon's view, Kissinger found John Connally a "potential rival" for power in the Administration. To avoid a replay of the Rogers-Kissinger feud, Nixon dropped Connally as his choice to succeed Rogers as Secretary of State and gave Kissinger the job instead...
...dispute. Greece hinted it might extend territorial waters from six to twelve miles around each island; the Turks warned Washington that that would be a fighting matter, and the Greeks dropped the idea. With both sides now so angry, the U.S. may not be able to mediate a new feud over oil and air rights in the Aegean, which have frequently brought the two countries close to war in the past two years...
...this discontent stems from the natural resistance to change that characterizes any comfortable organization. Yet Gorski dismissed most of the union's grievances out of hand, without realizing that the officers had a right to complain about their conditions of employment. The University has done little to mend the feud. In almost three months of contract negotiations, Harvard has made no significant effort to deal with the union's complaints, and has stalled its selection of a federally ordered third party to examine the reorganization question. Meanwhile the police officers, unwilling to come to terms without resolving the dispute, have...
...either at war or at peace," argues Syrian President Hafez Assad. At the moment Assad and other Arab leaders are opting for peace. The Syrian leader and Egypt's Anwar Sadat recently smoothed over a lengthy feud involving Syrian intervention in Lebanon; last week Jordan's King Hussein and Sadat met to discuss peace strategies and Palestinian statehood...
...Cairo, after a four-day summit, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Syrian President Hafez Assad formally ended their year-long feud by announcing not only their reconciliation but also the creation of machinery for a closer alliance of their two states. No one seriously expects a return to the kind of Syrian-Egyptian union that blossomed and then failed in Gamal Abdel Nasser's day. Instead, observers interpreted the two leaders' reference to "unionist relations" to mean that they were coordinating their diplomatic drive to force Israel to the Geneva conference table early in the coming year...