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...Newsmen have welcomed the improvement in atmosphere but not the juggernaut schedule, which has kept them in the air 240 hours this year. In his half-year in office, the Vice President has flown 80,000 miles to make 375 appearances. The Ford entourage was on the road 28 days in May alone, and the June schedule offers no relief. Last week reporters sent him an only half-facetious memo reading, in its entirety, "Subject: Complete Exhaustion...
...Secretary of State Henry Kissinger had successfully negotiated during a month of difficult and dramatic shuttle diplomacy. Major General Herzl Shafir signed immediately for Israel. Syrian Brigadier Adnanwajih Tayara, presumably because his government was still uneasy about dealing with an enemy of 26 years, would sign only after newsmen had been cleared from a gallery overlooking the chamber...
...backgrounders by a "high Government official." For the Secretary, the extended negotiations presented special psychological and physical hardships. Psychologically, he was becoming the victim of his own success; each achievement made the succeeding goal more difficult to reach. Physically, he worked at a pace that left aides and accompanying newsmen limp with exhaustion. Days began with early breakfasts in the King David suite he shared with Nancy Kissinger. Those few quiet moments were soon followed by conferences, cables covering a range of other State Department business, fast glimpses at news summaries and furious airport runs. He communicated with President Nixon...
Beyond that, there has been the fatigue factor, which may have even begun to affect the tireless Secretary of State. At week's end Kissinger-nicknamed "Henry Hercules" by U.S. newsmen traveling with him-had been out of the country and on the go for 28 days. The Middle East negotiations had forced him to delegate the chairmanship of a Washington meeting of CENTO nations last week to Deputy Secretary Kenneth Rush. Kissinger also had had to postpone Capitol Hill appearances to testify on such matters as the upcoming defense budget, while foreign ministers of other nations who wanted...
...unlikely setting of an auto-towing-company yard in a black district that stretches across south central Los Angeles. FBI agents, Los Angeles policemen and deputy sheriffs converged on the spot, which was turned into an impromptu central command and briefing post. They were joined by squads of newsmen who had picked up the same tip: the S.L.A. was hiding in the area...