Word: foreign
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According to an American associate, Eliot Bailen, Onassis "is not an officer of any corporation, domestic or foreign, but an owner holding stock that gives him control of corporations." As a result, he controls some 100 companies in a dozen nations, operating a fleet of perhaps 4,000,000 tons displacement under "flags of convenience." Beyond that, he is engaged in developing the "supertankers of the air," the next generation of giant jets and shuttle airbuses. His investments include hotels, banks, and seaports. But oil shipping remains his principal source of income. In a moment of self-deprecation, Onassis once...
...brief pitch for funds at the end of his televised foreign policy speech on Sept. 30 brought in $300,000, or more than twice the cost of the network air time. A similar appeal in his speech on crime Oct. 12 also stimulated sizable mail contributions. Over-the-transom donations, averaging $3,000 a day just a few weeks ago, were averaging $35,000 a day last week...
...NIXON. The word went out last week in the Nixon camp: Dampen all that Cabinet speculation until after Nov. 5, lest it seem presumptuous. Still, it is generally believed that Nixon is so interested in foreign affairs that he may not want an overly independent Secretary of State. In that case, he might pick Pennsylvania's William Scranton, who recently trekked to Europe on a fact-finding tour for him. If Nixon finally decides on an individualist for Foggy Bottom, the odds favor Douglas Dillon, who would have been Secretary of State in 1960 had Nixon won. Scranton might...
Conservative Coloration. As of this week, the outlook is for a Republican pickup of 22 seats. That would give the 91st Congress a Democratic edge of 226 Democrats to 209 Republicans. It would also give the House a more conservative tilt, making it more hostile to foreign aid than even the pinch-penny 90th, more sympathetic to defense appropriations, less anxious to enact fresh domestic programs, more eager to transfer federal projects to state and local control...
...Viet Nam and the "honorable settlement" that both Nixon and Humphrey have called for, what of the future? Nixon does not disagree with Humphrey's argument that the U.S. "cannot play the role of global gendarme." But neither man clearly explains just how the U.S. should defend its foreign allies and interests. To draw a specific perimeter of defense would obviously encourage aggressors to grab anything on the other side of the line. Still, the candidates could at least specify which areas they regard as vital to American security, while just as clearly reserving a right to move elsewhere...