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...eyed, Butz emerged to tell newsmen that the use of a racial jibe did not reflect his real attitude. Resigning, said Butz, "is the price I pay for a gross indiscretion in a private conversation." Half an hour later, Ford said that "Earl Butz has been and continues to be a close personal friend and a man who loves his country and all it represents." Accepting the resignation of "this good and decent man," Ford declared, had been "one of the saddest decisions of my presidency...
...Newsmen also asked about Ford's acceptance, while he was a Congressman, of free golf outings and overnight stays at private clubs. The bills were paid by several corporations, including U.S. Steel, Bethlehem Steel, Alcoa and Firestone. The matter was hardly of great significance, since such freebees were common, at least in preWatergate Washington. Carter, in fact, has conceded that he and his family were guests of Brunswick (Ga.) Pulp &Paper Co. at its showcase "pine plantation" for several days in 1972, when he was Governor of Georgia. He had been invited there, the company said, to discuss...
...landed at Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. On arrival, he found the Tanzanian government less receptive to his mission than he had hoped. Student demonstrators, obviously acting with government acquiescence, greeted the Secretary with signs branding him a "cynical murderer." Later, after five hours of talks, President Nyerere told newsmen that he felt "even less hopeful" about Namibia than he had been before. But at the very least, Nyerere remarked, the mission would clarify U.S. views on southern Africa. In that sense, he added, "a shuttle of clarity is not a shuttle of failure...
...case. After at least five separate Soviet diplomatic protests, Belenko finally agreed to meet with a Russian embassy official. But the meeting, held shortly before his Tokyo departure, was short. Belenko, who obviously was less than impressed by the arguments of the Communist official, waved merrily to newsmen as he climbed into an auto after the confrontation...
Kissinger, who did not hear about the Dar es Salaam meeting until the night before he left for Zurich, was worried that the African leaders would reject his negotiating offer before he had a chance to discuss it with them. Later he told newsmen that he had been invited to visit Dar es Salaam on his forthcoming shuttle. A Tanzanian spokesman put it somewhat differently: "He asked to come, and we said, 'All right, come along.' " Despite his minor gaffe, Kissinger will obviously be welcome in Tanzania, as well as Zambia, the most important stops on his current...