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Still another factor was the remarkable popularity of Communist Jacques Duclos, a 72-year-old roly-poly extravert who looks as though he had never given up his youthful job as a pâtissier. Although he serves as the party's chief propagandist, Duclos wisely concentrated on giving Communism a friendly face and good one-liners-including the name of his dog, Pompon, after his favorite political opponent. Asked why his party disavowed the militant New Left, whom Frenchmen have nicknamed Gauchos, Duclos replied: "Gauchos, but they're American!" He seldom lost the chance to rumble mechanically...
...done more to dramatize the sorry state of U.S.-Latin American relations than anything since Richard Nixon's own tumultuous tour of the southern continent in 1958. Last week, conceding that there is "some discontent" among Latin Americans over their relations with the U.S., Secretary of State William P. Rogers declared that "there is no part of the world more important to us" and that the Administration does not want relations to deteriorate further...
...Daniel P. Moymhan, LL.D , urbanologist and special assistant to President Nixon...
...George P. Shultz, LL.D., Secretary of Labor...
Died. James P. Warburg, 72, multimillionaire financier and author of dozens of books on U.S. foreign policy (Peace in Our Time?, 1940; The West in Crisis, 1959); of a heart attack; in Greenwich, Conn. Wealthy by birth, well placed in banking, Warburg had every reason to support the established order. Instead, he became an articulate advocate of new, often radical political maneuvers, assailing such elements of U.S. policy as the refusal to seat Communist China in the U.N., and America's stress on military rather than socioeconomic solutions to the cold...