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...Thailand, American companies have more than $120 million invested, largely in rubber tires, textiles and electronics. Preparing to journey for a firsthand look at the Asian situation, National Semiconductor Corp. President Charles Sporck last week termed his company's Thai assembly plant "a source of concern." He added that despite Thai government assurances that the plant is secure, "to tell you the honest truth, I'm not so sure." In the first quarter of 1975, applications to invest in Thailand from U.S. and other firms fell more than 50% below a year ago. Says Mitsuo Unabara, a Japanese...
...past the president has often been denied access to community views because the government and community affairs office has exercised control over the neighborhood people he gets to see. But the visiting committee would go above the government and community affairs office, confronting Bok and the Overseers with firsthand community opinions. The visiting committee would also provide the Fellows and the Board of Overseers with information that these bodies are normally unable to obtain because of their distance from Harvard and their infrequent meetings...
With his socialist books no longer banned in Portugal, French Philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre, 69, felt encouraged enough to take a firsthand reading of the Portuguese revolution. During a 15-day visit to the country with his longtime friend, Author Simone de Beauvoir, 67, Sartre chatted with writers and students, toured a factory and dined in Lisbon's Red Barracks Canteen with the Light Artillery Regiment, most radical of Portugal's revolutionary forces. Despite his antimilitarism, Sartre seemed thoroughly reconciled to the Portuguese army, which, he said, "is not like any other" since it represents all classes...
Indeed, Kissinger had decided on his response even before he could gauge firsthand the reaction in the U.S. to the collapse of his attempt to negotiate another Israeli-Egyptian disengagement. During a stopover at London's Heathrow Airport, he assured British Foreign Secretary James Callaghan that "if the President wants me to stay, I shall regard it as my duty to do so." As far as anyone can tell, Kissinger retains Gerald Ford's full support. Nonetheless, the Secretary of State faces a time of testing and questioning...
...recent theft of three masterworks from the Ducal Palace in Urbino, Italy (see ART), stirred the rage of TIME Critic Robert Hughes. Born in Australia, Hughes left home to study painting and sculpture in Italy. While living in the Tuscany region in 1964-65, Hughes learned firsthand the wanton nature of art thieves when they made off with the head of a statue of St. Paul in a church he often visited. Hughes traced the head as far as a "respectable" art dealer in Basel, Switzerland, but it was never returned to the church. Such theft, in his view...