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...daily lives of our peoples," he told the delegates. "There is no reason why, in 1975, Europeans should not be allowed to marry whom they want, hear and read what they want, travel abroad when and where they want, meet when they want. To deny that proposition is a sign not of strength but of weakness...
...between Turkey and Greece over Cyprus. The Turks were furious that Archbishop Makarios was there representing Cyprus (instead of a figure who would somehow represent both the Greek and Turkish communities) and stormed out of the conference hall while he was speaking. Later the Turks announced that they would sign the Helsinki declaration, known as the "Final Act," with a unilateral reservation that none of its provisions would be valid for Cyprus until a "legitimate representative" of the island republic had signed. During a private meeting, Ford offered Turkish Premier Süleyman Demirel $50 million in grant...
Memorable Moments. The most important meetings of the conference were unquestionably the private ones between Ford and Brezhnev. The U.S. was anxious for a sign of some momentum toward a SALT II agreement and perhaps some progress in the currently deadlocked Mutual and Balanced Force Reductions talks, whose aim is to reduce military forces in Central Europe. Indeed, the U.S. believes some sort of headway is necessary before a Ford-Brezhnev summit can take place in Washington this fall. At their first meeting, over a mahogany table at the U.S. embassy, the two leaders talked for two hours and professed...
...served two years of NATO duty in Norfolk, Va. He commanded Portuguese forces in Angola from 1970 until 1972 and was armed forces chief of staff until shortly before the coup, when he and Spínola were sacked during the old regime for refusing to sign an oath of allegiance to former Premier Marcello Caetano...
...Christian northerner from the relatively small Anga tribe. Nigeria's new leader is a Hausa Moslem with strong tribal loyalties-a factor that led Gowon to regard Mohammed as a threat to his own Lincolnesque policy of "national conciliation" after the Biafran civil war. The least sign of regional or tribal chauvinism on Mohammed's part might well lead to countercoup or renewed civil war. Foreign diplomats in Nigeria also fear that Mohammed's Moslem background might lead to a less moderate policy toward the Arab-Israeli conflict. Under Gowon's leadership, Nigeria, an OPEC member...