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...allies, who had gone their own way during the Middle East war and the subsequent Arab oil embargo. Henry Kissinger, who had been most angered by the Europeans' refusal to go along with the U.S. hi the winter, was all smiles at a meeting of NATO foreign ministers in Ottawa. He said, "I believe that the disagreements of the past year, which have resulted from the fact that we have dealt with serious people representing serious contributions to our common progress, will have strengthened us as only free people can strengthen themselves through a debate...
...whether NATO allies were obligated to consult one another on major issues affecting their security. The U.S. felt aggrieved last fall when the Europeans made hurry-up oil deals with the Arabs without talking to Washington first. The French said that the U.S. had no automatic consultation rights. In Ottawa the problem was neatly papered over. The members pledged to consult each other, but only after Kissinger vowed that the declaration was not legally binding. He then smoothly predicted that from now on there would be "a desire to consult." That settled, the allies took a relatively tough stance toward...
...best unequaled among living American artists. This and the recent sculpture (TIME, Oct. 23, 1972) are celebrated in a show of 126 drawings and pastels and 25 bronzes, organized by the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, which opened last week at the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa. It will later be seen at the Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C., the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo and the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston...
...Ottawa's stately federal Parliament building, a hush fell over the crowded public galleries last Wednesday night as the House of Commons prepared to vote. The issue: an opposition motion expressing no confidence in the minority Liberal government of Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau because its proposed 1974 budget allegedly failed to deal effectively with Canada's roaring inflation. Minutes later, when House Speaker Lucien Lamoureux announced the tally-137 votes in favor of the motion to 123 against*- opposition M.P.s exploded in a roar of delight and littered the green-carpeted chamber with a blizzard of tossed papers...
...indifference to the problems of the Western provinces made him appear to some a spokesman for the hated Montreal-Toronto financial establishment that controls so much of Canada's economy. "He made the mistake of assuming the stance of Plato's philosopher-king," observes TIME'S Ottawa bureau chief William Mader. "He lectured Canadians on what was good for them, and, of course, he knew the answers. Rationality not politics, he thought, was the key to governing well...