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...office, Kissinger will be working principally on his memoirs. But the suite is also emerging as a kind of shadow State Department, as Kissinger's staffers stuff manila folders with articles on the new Administration's foreign policy (one is labeled "Vance Middle East Trip"). Plainly, Kissinger will keep close tabs on his successor. But he has also vowed to keep closemouthed about how the new team is doing-at least for six months...
...freezing night last week, a burly figure stealthily flipped a fat manila envelope, wrapped in a sheet of plastic, into the parking lot of the Soviet embassy's seven-story residence in northwest Washington. The packet was addressed FOR THE RESIDENT-EYES ONLY, meaning, in spook jargon, that it was intended for the KGB spymaster who lived in the apartment building. Suspecting that it was a letter bomb planted by anti-Soviet Jewish activists, a Soviet watchman summoned U.S. officials, who in turn called in U.S. Army demolition experts...
...introduced us to a new game called Bottle Tops, so called because it was played with the pasteboard tops then used on glass milk bottles. They were plain on one side and had the name of the dairy printed on the other. The playing board was a piece of manila paper marked off in 64 squares like a checkerboard. We called it the depression game...
...Manila is not yet a standard stop on the international convention and curiosity circuit, but it seems to be trying. Two years ago, the Philippine capital played host to the Miss Universe Contest, and last year it had the Ali-Frazier heavyweight title bout. Last week the city rolled out the carpet for 1,500 leaders of international finance and banking who gathered to attend the first annual meeting of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank ever held in Southeast Asia...
Soaring Prices. The delegates had come to Manila not seeking pomp but a further expansion of the relationship between rich and poor nations, partly in the concrete form of increased aid from the IMF, the World Bank and the bank's subsidiary, the International Development Association, which makes "soft" long-term loans that carry no interest. Largely as a result of big increases in energy and fertilizer costs, caused by soaring oil prices, poor countries without oil face debts of up to $15 billion next year...