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...reply, Brandt insisted that the EEC had kept Washington fully informed of progress on the French proposal. The West German leader ended his letter on a conciliatory note, by inviting Nixon, on behalf of the EEC, to visit Europe at the end of April. At his Friday press conference, Nixon rejected the EEC invitation, declaring that "until Europe is...willing to cooperate on the economic and political front, no meeting of heads of state will occur...
...honest person can guarantee us that if we had come down from the Golan Heights after 1967, the Syrians would not have kept attacking our settlements. Outsiders are allowed to speculate about this. But they have no responsibility for the security of Israel...
Since then Shultz has won a few and lost a few. He foresaw shortages of both food and energy and kept pressure on the President to end restrictions on farm output and oil imports-two steps that were belatedly taken within the past 14 months. And he persuaded finance ministers of the world money powers last year to let currency-exchange rates float in response to supply and demand, a practice that has provided a measure of stability for the international monetary system...
Last year he was depressed by the Watergate scandals and President Nixon's inattention to economic policy; one of Washington's worst kept secrets was that he wanted to leave, but would probably wait for the energy crisis to abate and controls to be phased out before announcing his departure. Now 53, he will take occasional assignments for the White House, but says, "I don't have any idea, really," of what he will do for a full-time job. Displaying the integrity that even his bitterest critics admire, he refused to consider the subject until...
...London hotel and two of Ireland's biggest tour-promotion agencies, which has increased its ability to book charter groups into package tours. Another reason is Aer Lingus' long policy of offering high standards but low-cost, no-frills service; over the years it has kept as much as 13% more of its seats occupied than any other line flying the North Atlantic. Kennedy pledges to continue both policies and to cut costs further. But he warns that spiraling fuel prices, now almost 2½ times higher than a year ago, will make it "extremely difficult...