Word: foreign
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Last January Clark embarked on a two-week tour of four countries in order to demonstrate his foreign affairs expertise, but his less-than-sure grasp of issues as well as missed planes and lost luggage led one Montreal newspaper to dub his journey "Around the World in 80 Gaffes...
...ugly sight of Israeli civilians attacking soldiers of their own army was an apt symbol of the country's current acrimonious mood. During an emotional Cabinet meeting last week, Weizman and Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan fought successfully to prevent Begin from offering his hard-line plan for limited self-rule at the start of the autonomy talks. Instead, the two ministers won Cabinet approval to use the Begin plan only as an informal "guideline" during the negotiations...
After a meeting of the Cabinet, Foreign Minister Ibrahim Yazdi requested that the new U.S. Ambassador to Iran, Walter L. Cutler, delay his arrival hi Tehran until relations could be "clarified." Next day Yazdi rioted that the Senate resolution was not binding on the Carter Administration. He characterized it as a "response to Zionist interests...
...American students and that a special fund for South African black students would fill a financial vacuum for these students. Recently however, after reviewing the functioning of the Fund. I discovered that the Fund would not actually fill a vacuum. Indeed, because the College's equal access policy covers foreign as well as American students, the Biko Fund money would actually serve as a substitute for money already forthcoming from the College financial aid office. From this realization, it followed that the Biko Fund would not have a diversionary effect on funds donated to the Harvard Gift Fund. In fact...
Strauss plans to meet with Chinese Vice Premier Deng Xiaoping and Foreign Minister Huang Hua today, possibly in an effort to break the impasse in the textile negotiations...