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...Secretary and his aides flatly denied charges that Kissinger had worked particularly hard for disengagement in order to provide a foreign policy triumph for his embattled President. Nonetheless Nixon plans to make a ten-day visit to Algeria, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Syria and Saudi Arabia, probably beginning late next week. Sadat, confident that such a trip was in the offing, had already ordered the refurbishing of palaces once owned by King Farouk in Cairo and Alexandria for the presidential visit...
...reader will find difficult to judge. They began to eat the flesh of their dead companions. The grisly diet enabled 16 of them to sustain life for 70 days, until the snows had melted enough for two of the party's strongest members to make a harrowing, ten-day descent in search of help. When helicopters finally reached the mountaintop on Dec. 22,14 Uruguayans, most of them less than 20 years old, were still alive to greet their rescuers...
...Mexican police assigned to guard the U.S. Secretary of State, the reporters and photographers followed the Kissingers' every move. Carloads pursued the couple when they went into town. A motor-boatload of newsmen rocked their sloop during an afternoon sail. Kissinger finally negotiated a truce halfway through the ten-day honeymoon. In exchange for a press conference, the newsmen agreed to leave the couple alone. Summoning the press to the house of Mexican Foreign Minister Emilio Rabasa, Kissinger, dressed in a white guayabera (a casual Mexican shirt), was his usual genial self. Nancy, peering from behind oversized sunglasses...
...simple toast with Korbel (California) champagne: "Health and happiness to both of you!" Then, accompanied by their families, the couple drove to Arlington for the four-minute ceremony and were whisked to National Airport, where Nelson Rockefeller's jet was waiting to fly them to Acapulco for a ten-day honeymoon...
There is no margin for artistic error or experiment. Producers have been known to come on the set to dismiss directors who fall behind the customary ten-day shooting schedule...