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...some Moynihan supporters heard Kissinger's voice behind it. New York Times Columnist William Safire (who has been conducting a long vendetta-against Kissinger) speculated that Kissinger had planted the idea with Britain's Foreign Secretary James Callaghan during last month's economic summit talks in Rambouillet, France. Though the British later told Moynihan that Richard's views were "official" - endorsed by his government in London - participants in the Rambouillet talks deny any connivance. As one of them told TIME Diplomatic Editor Jerrold Schecter: "I was sitting in on all of Henry's conversations with...
...Cairo newspapers have charged that Syrian "prisons and concentration camps are crammed with people whose only crime was a word of objection against the terrorist Baath Party." When Kissinger attempted to arrange a European meeting between Assad and Ford following the American President's trip to Rambouillet, Egyptians deliberately leaked the details while Assad was in Moscow. The premature Egyptian announcement forced Assad to deny the Ford talks in order to salvage his Moscow meeting...
...economic summit meeting at the Chåteau de Rambouillet outside Paris fulfilled the modest expectations. The heads of government of the U.S., France, Britain, West Germany, Italy and Japan pledged greater cooperation in managing their increasingly interdependent economies and agreed to fight vigorously against "high unemployment, continuing inflation and serious energy problems" without so much as hinting at any specific measures by which these grand goals might be accomplished. The reaction of many observers, and some aides to the government chiefs, was summed up by London's Daily Express, which dubbed the gathering "NonEvent of the Year...
...stated purpose of exploring whether greater coordination is possible that France's Giscard has arranged the Rambouillet meeting. His initiative is being subjected to wildly differing appraisals. U.S. Investment Banker Henry Fowler, who was Secretary of the Treasury under Lyndon Johnson, says that the meeting will test "the capability of free democratic governments to demonstrate that they are workable in an interdependent world." On the other hand, Europe abounds in cynics who view the summit as an empty show staged by leaders anxious to demonstrate that they are doing something and thus escape blame for failing to manage their...
...nothing else the Rambouillet meeting is an important symbol of world leaders' willingness at least to consult each other on policy and avoid conflicts that might weaken the global economy. The gathering might also produce a useful reaffirmation by the government heads that they will resist growing pressure in every country for import quotas and other self-defeating protectionist measures...