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...astonishment that Nixon's adviser had gone to Peking to arrange a presidential visit about which Tokyo had not even been informed, the Japanese have become increasingly convinced-rightly or wrongly-that some personal Kissinger bias has had a role in shaping what they see as a harsh and misguided new U.S. policy direction. Tokyo's pique (or paranoia) has only been exacerbated by the fact that Kissinger turned aside several official invitations to visit, finally agreed to a "private" trip and then postponed it twice. In an open letter to the President's emissary, TIME...
...name to the "China shokku" of last July whose traumatic impact far exceeded the economic shocks that followed. Having stuck to an increasingly controversial policy of support for Nationalist China at our behest, they felt doublecrossed and deliberately outflanked. Since then, the Japanese have heard that you hold rather harsh and fatalistic views about them generally-that while for the time being they have only the U.S. to turn to, they will over the long run head inevitably in a nationalist and nuclear direction...
...into effect, the 23-part measure would ban new coastal oil drilling, impose a five-year moratorium on the construction of nuclear power plants, outlaw DDT and other "hard" pesticides, sharply reduce the sulfur content in diesel fuel and phase out all lead additives in gasoline. It would impose harsh fines on air polluters-.4% of their gross annual incomes daily. It would also bar from environmental-control boards anyone with a financial interest in any automotive or petroleum companies or in any firm that pollutes the air or water -anyone, according to the California Manufacturers Association, except "an orphan...
Just as Bok has been learning how he wants to be President, Harvard has been judging him. The judgments have often been harsh. Some have been approving. He has been called arrogant, a maximizer, a cold-hearted bureaucrat who lacks substance. He has been hailed as The Answer--young, efficient, forthright...
Novak accused McGovern of trying to appease businessmen to running an advertisement in The Wall Street Journal that promised that McGovern's tax program for big business wouldn't be as harsh as it sounded in the press...