Word: foreign
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...fluent, almost unaccented English: at Columbia, S.C., where he will attend a centennial celebration for the late former Secretary of State James F. Byrnes; at Harvard, where he is to deliver the main commencement address and receive an honorary doctorate; and at the American Council on Germany, a foreign affairs organization in New York City...
Italian Economist Nino Andreatta, a leading planner for the Christian Democrats, blames West Germany for holding back Western European recovery because of its excessive fear of inflation. One Italian foreign ministry official goes further, saying that West German policies have actually slowed down the process of recovery, and complains that "we have told Bonn this many times but to no avail...
...seats in the Bundestag. Although F.D.P. today has only 40 seats in the Bundestag compared with the S.P.D.'s 224, the F.D.P. can, and does, exercise disproportionate power in the coalition. With four key portfolios in its hands, the F.D.P. can make its voice heard in major policy decisions. Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher, for instance, does not always agree with Schmidt; he is currently concerned that Bonn is perhaps too soft toward the Soviets and too tough toward...
...Egyptian President candidly admitted that some of his aides did not agree with the border-opening decision, which according to the treaty could have been delayed until January 1980. "The Ministry of Foreign Affairs was opposed to the idea, but I had given a promise to Begin," Sadat told reporters. "So it became a matter of my Ministry convincing me or vice versa, and believe me I convinced them...
...Cairo this week, Israeli Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan and Egyptian Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Boutros Ghali will begin negotiating details of the border opening. For normalization to take full effect, Egypt's new People's Assembly, to be elected this month, must revoke 30 years of legislation that made it a crime for Egyptians to deal with Israelis. Sadat's aides are convinced normalization of relations is their trump card in the next stage of talks, on autonomy for the West Bank and Gaza. Says one Egyptian diplomat: "If we make significant progress...