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Washington Dateline. That settled, Nelson Rockefeller moved on to tackle a problem of overriding interest in presidential politics: New Hampshire's early-bird primary, to be held March 8, which may make or break Rocky's candidacy. Rockefeller telephoned Senator Styles Bridges, New Hampshire's most powerful Republican. "Hiya, fella," said Rocky on the phone. "You know, one of the hardest things about not being in Washington is that you miss seeing your friends." Even Styles Bridges, as case-hardened a cynic as exists in Washington politics, boggled a bit. He and Nelson Rockefeller had never been...
...week's end word came that General Ayub, in flying the 1,000 miles across India that divides West and East Pakistan, will make what is officially described as a "fuel stop" at the Indian capital of New Delhi on Sept. 1, and will have time enough for a chat with India's Nehru, the first meeting of the two heads of state. One item that may well be discussed: General Ayub's suggestion last spring that Pakistan and India get together for the joint defense of the Indian subcontinent, an idea that Nehru-confronted with...
...last week fevers on both sides abated, proving once again that the shifting politics of the Middle East can make the best of bedfellows transients, or the worst of enemies useful, in short order. Concern over Iraq had brought them together: Nasser's fear of an Iraq that challenged his all-Arab pretensions, Hussein's distaste for the Iraqi regime that came to power by killing his King-cousin. In a move calculated to enhance Nasser's claim to be the friend of all Arab nations and to bolster Hussein on his precarious throne, the colonel...
...build a $14 million electronics plant in Brazil, and that "it can only be deduced that interests that do not want to lose these markets are causing difficulties." Another newspaper called the waiting Hallisey a mercenary hounding Birrell for a supposed $150,000 reward-a bounty that would make any Brazilian cop drool...
...permits. Companies with household names such as Richfield are planning to explore places with exotic names such as Graham Island. And the northern halves of British Columbia and Alberta, though far south of last week's discovery site, have in the last year produced big gas wells that make the whole region one of the world's liveliest sites for oil and gas exploration...