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...often in diplomatic history, the current crisis had an almost innocuous beginning. In mid-August, U.S. intelligence agencies concluded (from yet undisclosed evidence) that Soviet combat forces, as distinct from advisers, were in Cuba. At that point, the matter might have been quietly clarified and even settled by Moscow and Washington with some adroit negotiating. But the Administration lost control of the issue when it conveyed the intelligence findings to Senator Frank Church, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and an Idaho Democrat who faces a tough re-election fight next year. Church went public with the matter...
During his speech on Tuesday at the U.N., the Pope was expected to chastise developed nations in the West for conspicuous overconsumption and for not providing more help to poor nations. Vatican officials suggested that the Pope might also speak out against dictatorships of the right and the left and condemn both the West and the Soviet Union for selling weapons to Third World countries...
...acted as if he were born to lead. He was not timid, nor did he lack courage. "You will be measured in this town," he said to me once, "by the enemies you destroy. The bigger they are, the bigger you will be." Connally relished combat. Whatever one might think of his views, he was a leader...
...Energy James Schlesinger brusquely rejected a Mexican offer to sell the U.S. 2 billion cu. ft. of gas a day at $2.60 per 1,000 cu. ft., a price then considered "exorbitant." Two months ago, Administration aides hinted that López Portillo's long planned state visit to Washington might not be a useful exercise if a gas deal were not consummated. Apparently chastened by the threat, Mexican officials finally made an offer that seemed even more exorbitant but that U.S. bargainers quickly accepted: $3.63 per 1,000 cu. ft. for 300 million cu. ft., which is well above...
...nation's largest minority by the next decade. In New York last week, López Portillo met with a coalition of Spanish-speaking leaders, who urged him to put pressure on Carter for a relaxation of U.S. immigration laws. If Carter does not, the leaders implied, he might lose the solid Hispanic support that contributed to his victory...