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...President advanced a strategy of somewhat less pugnacious pressures to persuade Russians, Arabs and Israelis alike of U.S. determination to find stability in the Mediterranean area. Even before the Jordanian outbreak of civil warfare, Nixon announced that he would leave at the first of next week for a nine-day European tour-his third trip overseas since he took office-that would deliberately take him around the Allied perimeter of the Mediterranean...
...taken George Meany's proposition to heart. Leonard Woodcock's low-key style is in sharp contrast to Reuther's combativeness. The companies, too, have been less belligerent than Roche's tough words would indicate. At the Norwood, Ohio, Chevrolet assembly plant, workers staged a nine-day go-slow without audible protest from General Motors. Last week a jurisdictional strike halted work at the Lordstown plant, the home of G.M.'s subcompact, the Vega 2300. Normally, says Woodcock, the company would be "kicking and screaming and disciplining right and left. Now they're just...
...After a nine-day rest the Crimson golf team returns to competition this afternoon with a match against Williams and Boston College at the Concord Country Club...
Israeli jets, meanwhile, resumed their raids deep into Egypt after a nine-day respite. Twice last week they struck at Egyptian defenses in the Nile Delta. In the course of the week they claimed to have downed three MIGs in dogfights and a fourth by ground fire, bringing Israel's kills of Egyptian planes since...
WHEN President Georges Pompidou arrives in Washington this week to begin a nine-day stay in the U.S. -his first state visit-Americans will get their first good look at a leader who is a far cry from the regal and aloof figure of Charles de Gaulle. What they will see, in fact, is a man who has substituted pragmatism for grandeur, who wants to govern France rather than rule it, who emphasizes the continuity of the government rather than the man. Like his host, Richard Nixon, Pompidou can already claim two important domestic accomplishments: he has lowered the national...