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Watergate prosecutors regard the agreement as a quid pro quo for the pardon, but the White House denies it. On Saturday morning Becker delivered the agreement to the White House. Late that afternoon, Ford and several close advisers went over the final legal details of the pardon. He was still not completely sure that he would grant it, but, says one participant, "his mind was 95% made up." After that meeting, two old friends stayed behind with Ford. They were Buchen and Counsellor Robert Hartmann, whose long association with the President enables him to capture Ford's style and inner...
...Quid Pro Quo. At week's end nothing was certain. Though Arab leaders agreed that a meeting of oil ministers should be held to discuss lifting the embargo, they seemed in conflict on whether it should be in Cairo on Sunday or Tripoli on Wednesday. It is unlikely, though, that Libyan Leader Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, a blunt critic of the U.S., would permit a meeting in Tripoli that was likely to lead to an elimination of the oil cutoff. Algeria, Kuwait and Syria were also opposed to ending the boycott. Some of the other Arab states would probably agree...
...Secretary of State Henry Kissinger has made it diplomatically clear that the U.S. expects an end to the embargo as a quid pro quo for his peacemaking efforts in the Middle East, and the most influential Arab leaders have been responsive. Egyptian President Anwar Sadat has been pressing the oil-producing states to resume shipments to the U.S. King Faisal of Saudi Arabia agrees; his oil minister, Ahmed Zaki Yamani, stated flatly last week that the embargo had served its purpose and should be scrapped...
Officials of Associated Milk Producers Inc., the nation's largest dairy cooperative, which was one of the contributors, have privately told the committee that White House files contain documents that will reveal a quid pro quo arrangement between the milkmen and the Nixon Administration...
Pretext Removed. Even the quid pro quo explanation did not satisfy the fedayeen. Understandably. At the same time that their major Arab enemy was tendering an olive branch, one of their most fervent supporters was getting tough. Syria last week curtailed many fedayeen activities within its borders, including some guerrilla training-camp operations; it also closed down a propaganda radio station and confiscated an issue of an official newspaper published by the Palestine Liberation Organization...