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...25th drew leaders of 45 nations, but the list was loaded with little-known names. From the major powers, the only leaders scheduled to show were Richard Nixon and Britain's Prime Minister Edward Heath. East bloc representation suffered from a domino sequence of dropouts. Soviet Premier Aleksei Kosygin had been known to be anxious to attend the ses sion, presumably to add new thrust to Moscow's continuing global "peace offensive." With U.S.-Soviet relations cooling perceptibly over the Middle East, Kosygin canceled his travel plans and dispatched Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko instead. Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria...
...maintain the precarious ceasefire in the Middle East and how to get U.N.-mediated negotiations going. All of the leaders Nixon visited, including Pope Paul, Italy's President Giuseppe Saragat, Yugoslavia's Marshal Tito, Spain's General Francisco Franco and Britain's Prime Minister Edward Heath, applauded the effort and urged its continuation -though Nasser's death and the Jordanian war make the prospect for progress more tenuous than ever (see THE WORLD...
...mingle with them. To the dismay of his security guards, Nixon repeatedly followed the same handshaking tactics in Rome and Madrid. The largest crowds of the tour cheered Nixon and Franco, before Dick and Pat flew to London for a relatively quiet visit with Heath and Queen Elizabeth. Nixon's brief stay included a working session devoted largely to Middle East affairs, in which top British officials expressed concern over the growing naval presence of the U.S.S.R. in the Indian Ocean...
...cease-fire between his country and Egypt due to expire early next month, Eban said at the United Nations: "We do not recognize a deadline. Israel will not open fire just because a certain date has been reached on the calendar." Richard Nixon and Britain's Prime Minister Edward Heath lent weight to Eban's words at week's end when they proposed a 9-day extension of the ceasefire...
...Conservative government of Ted Heath, however, decided that if Dutschke was well enough to study, he no longer qualified as a convalescent. In a convoluted explanation, Home Secretary Reginald Maudling explained that Dutschke should not remain in the country unless he was allowed to practice his political beliefs. Since the previous government had seen fit to prohibit Dutschke from doing so, the Tories intended to expel him by this week...