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...refugee, a 25-year-old paratrooper, managed to reach Saigon after a ten-day flight by car, foot and boat from Bao Lac, capital of Lam Dong province, after it fell to the Communists. He told his story to TIME...
With a scrutable smile of confidence and a quip of the lip-"I only visit friendly capitals," he told a welcoming wag who asked him why he did not stay longer in Washington-Henry Kissinger returned last week from a ten-day 18,400-mile tour of the Middle East and Europe. The Secretary of State assured President Ford and members of Congress that he had created the momentum necessary to break an impasse in the disengagement negotiations between Egypt and Israel. The test will come in two weeks when he returns to Cairo and Jerusalem for a further round...
...Lincoln-Washington birthday recess is a congressional institution, but last week Congressmen back home for the ten-day holiday got an earful, and their ears were burning. What in the world were they doing at home, their constituents wanted to know, when the economy needed their full attention? "There is a real irritation around here that Congress recessed," reports New York Republican Peter Peyser. "People have been coming up to me and saying, 'Why aren't you down there doing something about all this?' " An aggrieved constituent told Virginia Republican Caldwell Butler: "Any policy is better than...
...still too early to gauge the effect of the price reductions, but the early returns are encouraging. The industry disclosed last week that during the latest ten-day sales period ending Jan. 20, Americans bought more than 130,000 cars. That was a decline of "only" 15% from the same period last year-and thus a marked improvement. During the month's first ten-day sales period, sales totaled just 93,235 cars, and were down 33% on a year-to-year basis, the worst performance ever recorded...
...President Gerald Ford packed his bags last week for a ten-day skiing holiday in Colorado, yet another blizzard of bad news about sales, prices, jobs and profits swept down on the U.S. It brought fresh evidence, if any were needed, that the President has some urgent and complex decisions to make next month about how-and how far -to shift his strategies for dealing with deepening recession, continuing inflation and energy problems...