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More recently Sullivan has been dividing his time between the White House and the State Department, poring over background material and briefing Kissinger for the newest talks in Hanoi. From Hanoi, Sullivan will fly to Saigon, Vientiane, Phnom-Penh and Bangkok to brief allied officials on the import of the negotiations. Then back to Washington and off again to Paris, where Sullivan will act as deputy to Secretary of State William Rogers for the U.S. delegation at the international guarantee conference on Viet Nam, beginning...
...there is no doubt that the diplomatic communications gap comes at an awkward time. It coincides ominously with the threat of a U.S. Japanese economic confrontation, as dramatized by the dollar crisis and the warnings of U.S. Trade Negotiator William D. Eberle that Congress might impose an import surcharge if Japan does not do more to reduce its lopsided trade surplus with...
...Papadopoulos rule seems a tolerable annoyance when weighed against the benefits of growth. More businessmen may soon be investing, particularly if other governments continue to put controls on investments by foreigners to halt speculation in the dollar. As a developing country, Greece has used its foreign currency to import needed goods, and it has no surplus of dollars. Thus it is likely to remain a nation in which a foreigner can freely bring in capital and start a business...
Angel Face. That strategy has previously served Agnelli with remarkable success. As president of Fiat France from 1965 to 1970, he doubled the firm's auto sales in that country. Later, as president of Fiat International, he made Italy's bestselling car the most popular import throughout the rest of Western Europe, started building Fiat factories in Argentina and Poland, and launched an energetic sales campaign in the U.S. Since 1970, the number of Fiats sold in the American market has doubled, to nearly 60,000 last year. For the first eleven months of 1972, Fiat...
...Chen's import franchise fell into her lap when she got a visa to visit relatives in China last year. Liao Chia-Jeng, a brother who was killed in the Shanghai Rising of 1928, had become a popular Communist hero. When Chinese officials realized that Liao was her brother, they let her travel unescorted throughout the country for two months, asked her to be an adviser to the Chinese Board of Trade and granted her the import concession...