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Congratulations to Mexico's President Luis Echeverria Alvarez [Oct. 11] for writing us something other than congratulations and platitudes on the occasion of our Bicentennial. It is seldom we read a forthright, dispassionate summary of our foreign policy, how it has evolved historically, and where we stand today in the eyes of the world...
...Ford is perceived as an honest and forthright man, a majority of Americans still do not feel he is a strong leader. After two years as President, he remains the slight underdog in a struggle with a man-all but unknown a year ago-who has no national record at all. Ford is not a dynamic President. He is sound, solid and steady-a known quantity. If his caution prevents him from providing exciting leadership, it also minimizes the risks. His composure is unlikely to crack under the strain of crisis. Ford was notably relaxed while handling the celebrated Mayaguez...
...Clean" of Japanese politics by giving free reign to the Lockheed prosecutors, while his longtime L.D.P. opponent Tanaka could only be hurt. But Miki also recognized that the Japanese public, long ago sickened by the lavish spending of Japanese politicians-and keenly impressed by the U.S.'s forthright handling of Watergate-would not tolerate a coverup...
...advanced the sport of gymnastics as much as Olga popularized it. Frighteningly daring, she has developed a series of ultra-acrobatic moves that leave crowds gasping. The Salto Comaneci, to cite one, is a twisting, back-somersaulting dismount from the uneven parallel bars that one U.S. gymnast has a forthright word for: "Madness." Her derring-do, coupled with unusual stability in such difficult and dangerous moves as three back handsprings in a row on the beam, won her last year's European championship. (Korbut did not compete; Turishcheva was injured.) Comaneci has been criticized for being too serious while...
While much of black Africa welcomed Henry Kissinger's forthright declarations of support during his visit to the continent, there were increasing signs last week that the Secretary's denunciations of Ian Smith's white minority regime in Rhodesia had merely stiffened its resolve to settle the issue of majority rule on the battlefield. Said one Western diplomat in Nairobi of Kissinger's ten-point program to pressure Smith into resolving the crisis: "Had it come six months earlier, it might have saved the day in southern Africa. But Kissinger is far too late. He calls...