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Trudeau was not Washington's only important foreign visitor last week. Spain also had a touchy topic: the renegotiation of the lease giving the U.S. one naval and three airbases in Spain since 1953. As the expiration date approached, Foreign Minister Fernando Maria Castiella y Maiz flew to Washington to meet President Nixon and State Department officials. They hacked out an "agreement in principle" to hold the lease open while talk continues. The airbases are no longer essential, but Rota is an important base for Polaris submarines. Bargaining broke down with Spain wanting $700 million in military...
...been impossible until now, in part because of South Viet Nam's refusal to meet with representatives of the N.L.F. However, the Nixon Administration, through Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker, has been applying heavy pressure on President Thieu to modify his position, and last week he did. Calling foreign correspondents to the presidential palace, Thieu announced: "We are ready to have private talks with the N.L.F., if they like...
...level meetings this week on the possibility of an agreement, and Washington's initiative had been welcomed in the other capitals. Both Paris and London, however, insisted that there was no thought of actually imposing a solution. "I do not think such a solution would work," said British Foreign Secretary Michael Stewart. "On the other hand, there is clearly the necessity to have some degree of persuasion by the four powers." The precise extent of such "persuasion" was left carefully undefined, and Washington braced itself for the arrival of Jordan's King Hussein, due April...
Less formal discussions, however, have been held. Israeli Deputy Premier Yigal Allon held three secret meetings with Hussein between Sept. 25 and 29 in London. Eban was present at one of these sessions. At one point in this period, Allon also met fruitlessly with Egyptian Foreign Minister Mahmoud Riad. It is likely that Eban and Hussein held more private discussions in London in October and January...
...been the Japanese ambassador to Iran, Poland and now Argentina, and he had served the Foreign Ministry in Tokyo for 37 impeccable years, but last week 59-year-old Ichiro Kawasaki found himself sacked for that most undiplomatic sin of all-speaking out. Was he guilty of gossiping about the Shah, uncovering the truth behind Polish jokes, or detailing the gaucheness of the gauchos? Not a bit of it. All Kawasaki did was to write a book, Japan Unmasked, about his fellow Japanese...