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...dinner given for the two leaders midway through their summit meeting in Iceland last week, Richard Nixon hoisted a glass to Georges Pompidou and offered the French President both a gracious toast and a telling reminder...
...style of militant Marxism. Siemens Executive Anton Peisl fears that "the mentality and vocabulary of the class struggle is gaining ground," that professors, journalists, union bosses and even church leaders now "find it chic to be as far left as possible." Members of French President Georges Pompidou's capitalist-minded Cabinet speak somewhat defensively of pursuing a "third way" between capitalism and Communism. "A Communist was once an anti-Christ," notes Le Monde Reporter André Laurens. "Now he has become a man to have a dialogue with. What a drama for French conservatives. Their bishops talk kindly about...
...already begun. He discussed his notions of a redefined relationship with Britain's Prime Minister Edward Heath in Washington last February, and with Italian Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti two weeks ago. West German Chancellor Willy Brandt is due in the U.S. this week; France's President Georges Pompidou is also scheduled to meet Nixon before Soviet Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev arrives for his long-awaited U.S. tour in June...
...debate but "a diplomatic offensive which in appearance only is an "offensive de charme.' " West Germany's Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung raised what may prove to be the central issue. The U.S. had posed all the important questions, it said, "but which Europe will give it the answer? Pompidou's fading neo-Gaullism? Brandt, suspended between Atlantic loyalty and necessity and the temptation of the opening to the East? Italy, shaken by internal crises?" Herbert Wehner, the Social Democratic floor leader in the Bundestag and one of Brandt's closest advisers, was even more skeptical...
...current world tour by Mexico's President Luis Echeverria produced a modest but unexpected diplomatic bonus last week. During Echeverria's visit in Paris, President Georges Pompidou announced that France would associate itself with the Treaty of Tlatelolco, a pact signed in 1967 by 21 Caribbean and Latin American nations (not including Cuba) to bar all nuclear weapons in the region from Mexico to Tierra del Fuego...