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...case, there is some reasons for optimism. Last week, two senior members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, New York Republican Jacob K. Javits, and Rhode Island Democrat Clairborne Pell, flew to Cuba, ostensibly against the wishes of the State Department. The two Senators had originally informed the State Department--which continues to implement the U.S. policy of non-recognition of Fidel Castro's government--of their desire to make the trip in April. Their request for clearance was rejected in August, according to a Javits aide. Only last month did the Department, though continuing to maintain that...
...abrupt change in policy by the State Department regarding the Javits-Pell trip can be understood in light of the explosive hostile reaction of the American news media, and segments of the Congress, to the developing Chilean story. It is possible that the trip was permitted simply for tactical reasons. Perhaps government officials were unwilling to further antagonize the Congress and the press by restricting the right of two Senators to travel, the Administration position having been seriously eroded by the Chilean revelations. Hearings had begun before the Foreign Relations Committee, and it was apparent that perjury indictments against high...
...crimes in Chile. But there may well be a more fundamental reason. President Ford has not yet publicly commented on the trip, and an aide to Javits said that the President had made no efforts to contact either Senator to prevent it. This appears to indicate that Javits and Pell at least had Ford's tacit approval...
...reason to doubt that he might not alter his stance, as he did on both China policy and the amnesty issue. It is reasonable to think that Ford is aware that the continuing exposure of American intervention in Chile can only hinder U.S. foreign policy. By allowing Javits and Pell to go to Cuba, a possible first step in an eventual detente with the Castro government, the President may be seeking to ameliorate the negative international reaction to American involvement in Chile...
...story by Reporter Sally Quinn in the Washington Post had it, New York Senator Jacob Javits, who is Jewish, and his wife Marion were all but tossed out of the tony old club when they arrived for a prerace dance as guests of Nuala and Claiborne Pell, Rhode Island's Democratic Senator. Quinn's intimations of anti-Semitism raised speedy protests from politicians and officials, who promised to investigate the club. As it turned out, the Javitses and the Pells had merely sat down at the wrong table-and were asked to find other seats when the member...