Word: petersons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...were all with Eagleton because if "he didn't crack during that week, he certainly wouldn't have cracked in office." About the highest praise McGovern got from the group was the mild "I just think he handled it as best he could" view of Willie Peterson, a black student from Covert, Mich. There was, however, a significant feeling among Democrats that the McGovern staff should bear more blame than McGovern for the incident...
...vacation home on the Black Sea last month, Leonid Brezhnev smiled conspiratorially across a plate of watermelon slices at U.S. Commerce Secretary Peter Peterson. "The Soviet Union has vast treasures for generations to come," the Communist Party boss said, "and we are now prepared to share them with you." He also told a joke about the peasant who bought eggs for two rubles, sold them for two rubles, and exclaimed "I am in business!" Brezhnev's point: the U.S. and the Soviets should not strike a trade bargain merely for the sake of making a deal, but should...
...Peterson ended his talks convinced that more big deals like the recent threeyear, $750 million bilateral grain agreement are likely. Indeed, U.S. agriculture officials predicted last week that the Soviets would expand their purchases of farm products to as much as $1 billion in the next twelve months alone. Last week Peterson reported to President Nixon that eight days of trade talks with Soviet officials had disclosed "a top-level Soviet decision that it is important to get access to Western products." He also briefed TIME Correspondent Jerrold Schecter on the promise and the problems of Soviet-American trade. Schecter...
...Peterson's dominant impression was that in return for American manufacturing expertise and equipment, the Soviets have concluded that they should share some of their unmeasured (in the West, at least) mineral resources. His Soviet hosts were quite specific about what they seek from the U.S.: advanced machine tools and techniques for making such products as trucks, farm machinery and color TV. "They want the latest and the best of our sophisticated manufacturing know-how," says Peterson. Yet the Soviets have no illusion that their consumer goods will be competitive in the U.S. "We are a good market...
...There will be no fundamental break with existing practices," Jewett said yesterday. In particular, he said he expects to continue Peterson's policies of special recruitment for minority students and of increased financial aid in the form of loans and employment assistance...