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Diktat Diplomacy. To many Latin Americans, the slap at Venezuela and Ecuador smacked of old-style U.S. diplomacy by diktat-no consultation, no negotiation. Twenty of the 24 members of the Organization of American States blasted the trade act as "discriminatory and coercive." Last week Argentine Foreign Minister Alberto Vignes announced that his country was postponing "indefinitely" the March meeting of OAS foreign ministers. Vignes was partly motivated by a reluctance to host a conference whose outcome-on the question of regularizing relations between the hemisphere and Fidel Castro's Cuba-was likely to fail. But the trade...
...misdemeanor charge. He had upped their class ranking, said Woolley, simply to make them eligible for athletic scholarships under N.C.A.A. rules. The possible maximum sentence was $1,000 and a year in jail. Woolley was fined all of $25. District Attorney Ron Wilson, who recommended the wrist-slap approach, explained, "I can't think of a more laudable reason to do wrong than to try to help a young kid." Besides, said the D.A., "what more can we do to the man than has already been done?" What has been done is to move Woolley from Ball High...
...Unwilling to suffer what might appear to be a rejection of his own brand of personal diplomacy, Brezhnev put off his trip. Although Moscow has relatively few policy differences with Syria and Iraq, Brezhnev could hardly visit those nations and skip Egypt; that would be a much harsher public slap at Sadat than the Soviet leader probably wants to administer...
IMPORT TARIFF. Citing a national security clause in the 1962 Trade Expansion Act, Ford could slap a tariff of $1 to $3 per bbl. on already costly foreign oil. Most of that oil goes to the Northeastern states, where it heats 30% of the homes and fuels 90% of the oil-fired generating plants. To ease the economic impact on those states, the Administration would spread the higher crude-oil costs around the country through the current equalization program. In effect, Western refineries with easy access to "old" domestic oil, selling at a controlled price of $5.25 per bbl., would...
...Ford. The Secretary had instructions for the President on how to talk and act. At the ramp in Vladivostok when the new President met the Russians it was like a movie scene. They were all there in their fur hats, shaking hands and slap ping backs and grinning as if it were a class reunion. And it was, in a way. These were Henry Kissinger's boys, drawn together in part by his wit and wisdom...