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...space of five days this week, Sadat had two critically important dates to keep. The first was a probe for peace: his initial meeting with Richard Nixon's successor, just a year after the former U.S. President's visit to Egypt. The second was a gamble that a new Arab-Israeli war could be averted: a ceremony marking the reopening of the Suez Canal on the anniversary of its closure in 1967 at the outset...
...outgrowth of the Watergate scandal has been an intensified Government probe into contributions by American-based multinational corporations -especially oil companies-to foreign politicians. Two years ago, the Watergate special prosecutor's office, while investigating illegal contributions to Nixon's 1972 campaign, discovered clues indicating that some U.S. firms had also been donating to political parties in other countries. The Securities and Exchange Commission later began looking into the matter. Reason: giving corporate cash to a foreign political party does not in itself violate U.S. law, but disguising the contributions on a company's books might contravene...
...ever since they met at a party five years ago. Walters tried not to let that friendship mar her reputation as a tough interrogator last week. Most of her questions were thoughtful and to the point, though she did not press Kissinger about his displeasure with the Israelis or probe his contention that Congress is largely to blame for South Viet Nam's fall. At one point, when Kissinger rephrased-and defanged-a Walters query about the validity of the domino theory, she cooed, "I like your questions much better than mine. They are clearer...
...three patrol members who prompted the investigation of the patrol by writing a letter in February to about ten deans and administrators said yesterday that the administration probe's report, which they saw Wednesday, is a "complete whitewash" of the controversy...
Unlike the current Advisory Committee on Community Affairs, which convenes only when Daly wants it to, and even then may be ignored by him, a visiting committee could regularly check into neighborhood gripes and then report them to Daly's higher-ups. The committee, for example, would probe into how the community relations people managed to alienate so many Cambridge residents, particularly alumni, in its handling of the Agassiz confrontation...