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...compulsive total recall of menus (at CIA headquarters dessert is austere "melon and cookies"; the G Street Club offers "a perfect, soft Brie"). But his prose, often better than serviceable, is sometimes very cutting indeed. (The political career of a Democratic Vice President is summed up as "a lackluster, snail creep to seniority.") By the time the reader gets to President No. 3, Richard Monckton, he is meant to accept Ehrlichman's jungle view of life in the nation's capital. U.S. Presidents generally, one is encouraged to assume, should be placed only a few points...
Even for multinational economic negotiations, the trade talks among 93 nations sponsored by the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade have been proceeding at a snail's pace. Negotiations were launched 30 months ago, and so far have accomplished next to nothing-mostly because the U.S. first had to get a law passed giving the President authority to offer concessions, then conduct Government-industry-labor consultations on its negotiating position. Last week, however, Chief U.S. Negotiator William N. Walker finally presented the first major U.S. proposal: all industrial nations should cut tariffs 50% to 60%. With that, the GATT...
...fact is that progress has been snail-paced in the two years since Kissinger and Panamanian Foreign Minister Juan Antonio Tack signed a joint statement of principles to launch negotiations on terms for returning the canal...
...fast redistribution of wealth not to be impatient," declared West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt in a recent New York speech. "In Europe, the process of industrialization has so far lasted about 200 years." Modern methods of agriculture, in fact, advanced through Europe in the 19th century at the snail's pace of only a few miles yearly...
...Caller is one of those French films made in envious and inadvertently silly imitation of American crime melodramas. Director Henri Verneuil (The Sicilian Clan) works hard to duplicate every cliche of the genre, from a car chase right down to a breathless pursuit up stairs that wind like a snail's shell...