Word: south
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...reports of the favorable reaction to Agnew's assaults on the peaceniks. Letters and telegrams flowed into the vice-presidential office at a ratio of 3 to 1 in favor of his statements. The Administration views Agnew as a valuable weapon in its continuing efforts to keep the South safe from George Wallace. Nixon's own speeches, of course, are muted in comparison with Agnew's, and if the contrast makes the President appear the cool-headed moderate-well, that's political imagery. Every Administration needs a large target to draw fire away from the boss...
...letters to Postmaster General Winton Blount; when Blount invited Cooper to his office recently to talk over a Post Office problem, Cooper refused to come. Colorado's Peter Dominick is still seething over a contretemps with a second-echelon Treasury Department official, and even Karl Mundt of South Dakota-a staunch Nixon loyalist-complains of the "remoteness" of Administration staffers. The President himself angered many Republican Senators of every political hue. They could rarely...
NOTHING, it seemed, could halt the bloody feud between the army of Lebanon and the Palestinian Al-Fatah guerrillas-not the intervention of Gamal Abdel Nasser, not the warnings of the U.S. and the Soviet Union, not the menace of an uneasy Israel. From Tripoli south to Sidon, from dusty villages on the edge of the Mount Hermon massif in the east to the fashionable sea front of Beirut in the west, violence continued as Arab fought Arab. In Tripoli alone, at least 18 were dead...
RICHARD NIXON'S first official foreign visitor in the White House last January was Galo Plaza, Secretary General of the Organization of American States, and there was a sense of urgency in his call. U.S. relations with the nations to the south were at their lowest ebb in years. The U.S.-conceived Alliance for Progress had been a disappointment, if not an outright failure, and many disillusioned Latin Americans were seriously asking whether the U.S., preoccupied with Viet Nam and domestic crises, really cared. Not until last week, after more than nine months of reassessment, did Nixon give...
Plainly, the speech signaled a lower profile for the U.S. south of the border and a determination to require Latin American nations to assume from this point on a more active role in guiding their own development. Did it also signal a U.S. desire to disengage? Said a high Administration spokesman: "the answer is no-not disengagement, but re-engagement." Nor would the new policy imply economic isolation, he added. "What it does mean is that we would like to dispel the myth that the U.S. is the instant messiah for miracles." The question remains whether Nixon's proposed...