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...come at a worse moment. Only the week before, Turkey had threatened to close American bases and reassess its participation in NATO in response to Congress's cutoff of U.S. military aid (TIME, Feb. 17). Moreover, the confrontation came just as U.S. relations with Athens were on the mend. Said George Mavros, chief opposition leader in the Greek Parliament: "It's unprecedented. I blame [Secretary of State Henry] Kissinger, and I blame [Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei] Gromyko. They have been talking about stability and peace and a fair solution on Cyprus. What do we have tonight? The eastern...
...William Lukash, the White House physician. Said the President: "It looks like you're having a party here." Ford joked that his wife was faring much better in her spacious suite than he had two years before when he came to the hospital to have doctors mend an old football injury to his knee...
...intensified. A large group of dissidents (Evangelical Lutherans in Mission) have now officially cast their lot with the strikers, announcing that they will divert their contributions from church headquarters to a new mission board and the seminary in exile. A conciliation board is still at work trying to mend the tattered situation, but the prospects for restoring unity are bleak...
...This respondent [Farah] has been repeatedly directed to mend its ways," Maloney wrote, "and yet it continues on as if nothing had happened, pursuing its policy of flouting the Board and trampling on the rights of employees as if there were no act, no board, and no Ten Commandments...
...ministers of the past-2;or, perhaps, to the fast-moving comet Kohoutek. No other Secretary of State in U.S. history has ever carried so much power, so much responsibility or so heavy a burden. One of Kissinger's principal tasks on his two-week trip was to mend at a meeting of NATO foreign ministers in Brussels, the severely strained relations with Amer ica's allies, a task he performed with moderate success. The other and far more difficult assignment was to create a climate for an auspicious start to this week's Geneva peace talks...