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...fortress-like Cologne-Bonn airport north of the West German capital was filled with machine-gun-bearing border police, supplemented by plainclothes agents in unmarked cars. Barbed wire surrounded almost every government building, as well as the houses of all high-level officials. Makeshift machine-gun bunkers, constructed of stacked sandbags, appeared on the rooftops of buildings throughout the city's government section along the Rhine. Night and day, armed police stopped virtually every car in the city and suburbs...
...interest is in a big-name intercollegiate program, will be great. We hope Reardon will be able to live up to the high expectations he has set for himself, and remember next year the importance of the commitments he has already made. The dubious circumstances that have already clouded Reardon's selection for his present post--a series of high-handed political maneuvers that we hope will never again enter into the appointment of a high-level Harvard official-- make it all the more imperative that Reardon remove all doubts by living up to his word. If he does...
Meanwhile, the Arab League gathered in Cairo over the weekend for its first high-level meeting in six months. Chief topic on the agenda: the Palestinians. Prince Saud, who was the chairman of the meeting, declared that the Arabs would adopt "a plan of action" against the Israelis' move to create new settlements on the occupied West Bank and Gaza which he characterized as "criminal measures and a flagrant challenge endangering peace in the region." The meeting was expected to communicate to Carter the Arab message-no Palestinians, no settlement...
...Five high-level emissaries were out spreading the gospel of good will. United Nations Ambassador Andrew Young toured seven island countries in the Caribbean, as well as Mexico, Costa Rica and Venezuela, on a twelve-day mission designed to signal increased U.S. concern for the long-neglected area. At the same time, Assistant Secretary of State Terence Todman and Patricia Derian, State's Coordinator for Human Rights, set out on separate South American missions, while State Department Counselor Matthew Nimetz went to Mexico City. Meanwhile, Senator Frank Church, ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, accepted a longstanding...
...BEEN relatively easy for people my age to deal with Nixon's duplicity, because sadly it came when we were young enough to look at high-level corruption as a fact of life. But for an older generation that had placed its faith in the integrity, if not the competence, of its public officials, the Watergate scandal was often traumatic...