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...fearing that it would threaten jobs in this country by increasing the flow of American capital and technology overseas. More important, Meany accused Jackson of "phonying around with Henry Kissinger," claiming that for almost two months the Senator had joined the Secretary of State in concealing a Soviet let ter rejecting a trade agreement with the U.S. that seemed all settled...
Intoxicating Malice. O'Hanlon's most controversial, heart-rending chap ter is one in which he blames the Ul ster savagery on the frustrations of Irish family life. In the Catholic Republic and the outposts in Londonderry and Bel fast, he argues, swarms of unwanted children bedevil hopeless parents: "Any body who lives in Ireland can testify to the absence of love in the average home." Fathers drink too much, then beat their wives and children with heavy, indiscriminate hands. Violence learned at the hearth is later re-enacted in the Irish Republican Army...
Clearly a lot of TLC went into the staging of Pulcinella, but to uncertain effect. Rouben Ter-Arutunian has tastefully re-created Picasso's costumes and his imposing backdrop-a blue-gray cubist evocation of a moonlit street in 18th century Naples. The vital young Jeffrey dancers, moreover, prance through the one-act ballet as if caught up in a marathon tarantella. But breathing life into this Pulcinella is rather like trying to revive a dead tree by gluing fallen leaves back onto its limbs...
Gerald Ford pardons Richard Nixon for any federal crimes he committed or may have committed from January 20, 1969 to August 9, 1974. Ford's new press secretary, J.F. ter Horst, quits in protest. Nixon says he is grateful and regrets any mistakes he might have made while trying in good conscience to unravel the Watergate scandal...
...There certainly is a link of interest in terms of energy, the need for it, and Arab oil. I would hope that this could help bring about better understanding, bet ter cooperation. But I believe that any ill-considered measures [on the part of the Arabs] would certainly affect relations and cause setbacks to our efforts...