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...President Nixon made his happy progress through the Middle East, that remark probably summed up much of the anger and frustration felt by many Russian diplomats. In Washington last week Soviet officials indicated privately that Nixon's reception in Moscow two weeks from now will be more restrained than it might have been because of the Russians' displeasure over their eclipse in the Middle East. Ironically, the U.S. has gone out of its way to give the appearance that the Soviets have been involved in the Syrian-Israeli disengagement negotiations, even as Moscow has played down...
...There are those of us in Alcoholics Anonymous who rejoice in our sobriety. At a recent dinner dance at a newly dedicated Al-Anon Club, a woman was heard to remark that it was not she but her husband who had been the problem drinker. She herself had never tasted alcohol in all her life. "Oh, what a shame," replied a veteran boozer sadly. "Then you'll never know how good it feels to recover...
While most Democrats regarded impeachment or resignation as an inevitability that they were bound to support, Republicans were still anguishing about how to ride the wave that was swamping them. Scarcely a Republican could be found to disagree with a remark last week by Connecticut Senator Lowell Weicker: "I think the party has no obligation whatever to defend the President." But they had not yet agreed on any concerted plan of action, such as going to the President and telling him to step down. Less patient outsiders have wondered why the Republicans have not summoned their courage and marched...
Early TV laurels went to CBS, which on Wednesday devoted most of its 60-minute Morning News and an hour-long special that night to the transcripts. In both broadcasts the network made remarkable use of clips from the Watergate hearings and past presidential speeches. Viewers were treated to videotapes of the President and H.R. Haldeman last summer denying that "hush money" had been authorized for Watergate defendants and videotapes of John Dean testifying to the contrary before the Ervin committee last June. Then Dan Rather read a Nixon remark to Dean from the transcripts: "Just looking at the immediate...
...This is an opportunity to open a new page in relations between our countries," observed Egyptian President Anwar Sadat when he accepted the credentials of Hermann F. Eilts, the U.S.'s first ambassador to Egypt in seven years. Sadat's remark was an understatement. Washington-Cairo relations have been improving so fast that it has been more like opening a new book...