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...their countrymen. In a radio interview, Willy Brandt gave the Germans a lesson in prudent international etiquette. Said the Foreign Minister: "Arrogance toward our neighbors and partners would be stupid and dangerous." Chancellor Kiesinger warned his people about developing pretensions of grandeur. "In the journalistic utterances abroad during the past days, there were voices that spoke of an alleged shift of power within Europe to Bonn," he said. "I would like to warn my fellow-countrymen urgently against falling for such slogans. Nothing could be more unbecoming to us than such a presumption, which in any case betrays a lack...
...determined effort to preserve the parity of the franc cannot mask the reality of France's diminished stature. In order to stop the outflow of francs, France is now sealed behind a monetary barrier, deprived of much of the economic freedom that De Gaulle has used in the past to act as arbiter of Europe and counterweight to West Germany. Nothing so underscored France's reduced position as the cancellation of next year's nuclear tests in the Pacific, in which France was expected to explode its first missile-sized H-bomb. Doubtless the general will continue...
...floodgates of democracy. For one thing, the popular elections were limited to 108 seats, a mere 19% of the Cortes, Spain's Parliament. The rest of the seats in the Cortes continued to be filled by Franco appointees or loyal organizations. Moreover, the campaign rules favored past members of the Cortes, forbade political parties or public fund raising, and required candidates to take a loyalty oath. Leaders of the real op position soon dismissed the whole exercise as a farce, and the Spanish press ran cartoons picturing all 316 candidates competing for the 108 seats as identical, production-line...
Later, complains Cardiologist Irvine H. Page, a past president of the American Heart Association, the "circus trappings and glitter" surrounding the transplants set off a rush among surgeons to join "the me-too brigade." Many surgeons concede that by no means were all of the 36 medical centers in 16 countries that have tried transplants well-enough staffed or equipped to do so. Yet despite all the failures, Houston's Dr. Denton A. Cooley, who has transplanted more hearts than any other man, defends the operations. He points to what happened after early, unsuccessful attempts at heart-valve surgery...
They were headed for Miami, or San Juan or Houston, but a funny thing happened. Over the past eleven months, more than 1,000 Americans have visited Cuba unexpectedly: their airplanes were hijacked. In all, 17 U.S. planes have been diverted to Cuba since January, and a record of sorts was set last week when three jets carrying 238 people made forced landings in Havana within eight days. So far, nobody has been hurt-mainly because airline crews are carefully briefed for such an emergency. Pilots carry maps of Havana's Jose Marti Airport just in case, and stewardesses...