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SECRETARY OF DEFENSE Caspar W. Weinberger's announcement Saturday that he will urge President Reagan to sell more arms to Jordan came as little surprise. For anyone at all familiar with the foreign policy tactics of this Administration, the sequence of high-level consultations followed by the announcement of a mammoth arms sale has become distressingly familiar. After taking care of larger and more pressing accounts--including those of Saudi Arabia. Egypt, El Salvador, and Pakistan--it was only logical that the U.S. would get around to other prospective friends with its enticing platter of highly sophisticated armaments...
...feel King is at least equally vulnerable especially on the issue of corruption. Dukakis strategists say they intend to contrast their candidate's image of impeccable honesty with what they call King's tainted reputation. The challenger makes no bones about raising the name of Barry Locke, a former high-level King adviser and director of the MBTA, who was convicted this month on bribery charges. Dukakis also points to the Ward Commission report, which unearthed significant corruption in state government, and which the King Administration has ignored in the year since it was released...
...started in January 17th, At 8:30 p.m., on Aeroflot jet landed in Charico air Gentle airport near Park. Four high-level Soviet officials--negotiators for Soyuzgas-Export--debarked and were promptly met by the directors of Gas de France(GDF), the nationalized company responsible for French natural gas production. The group bearded a training aircraft and was whisked away to the Alpine ski resort of Val-Thorens...
...coherent approach to the world. Though he said, "I continue to believe that the Administration embodies the best chance for free peoples," Kissinger urged public debate on a grain embargo against the Soviets and a credit freeze on debt-ridden Poland. He called for a suspension of all high-level U.S. talks. Instead of seeing a clear and potentially effective response, lamented Kissinger, "freedom-loving Poles who looked West saw dithering procrastination, sophisticated justification for impotence, or rhetoric incapable of rising to serious action...
...weeks ago high-level trade officials from the U.S., Canada, the European Community and Japan held two days of meetings in Key Biscayne, Fla. One of the messages of the session was a warning to Japan's Minister of Trade and Industry, Shintaro Abe, that his country must open its market to more imports. Abe replied that Japan would take "drastic" action before the end of the month to make it easier for the U.S. and other countries to sell their products in Japan...