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...TOUCHIEST TAPES...
...republic lasts. At every lunch Paul can expect Republicans, Democrats, rights, lefts, ins and apparently outs. Sometimes, to keep them all separated but still within view of each other, he will have to change a person's table 15 times before he or she arrives. The touchiest situation now is between the Nixon and Agnew men. Back on that same Friday, Paul maneuvered Vic Gold, Agnew's former press secretary and current White House nemesis, a respectable distance from Ken Clawson, a Nixon aide...
...guerrilla issue was clearly the touchiest item on the agenda in Cairo. Hussein apparently expressed a willingness to let small units of the Palestine Liberation Army be based in Jordan under Jordanian command. But he balked at proposals that massive bands of guerrillas be allowed back in the lines under independent fedayeen command. The King's determined stand stalled the conference. When it ended after three days, Egypt announced that it was resuming diplomatic relations with Jordan, and Syria is expected to follow suit soon. But the communiqué made no reference to the fedayeen issue...
...accept a congratulatory telegram from Israel, one of its supporters in the vote on admission, has all along backed the Palestinian fedayeen, often against Soviet-supported Arab governments. To continue to do so would risk alienating many Arab countries that Peking hopes to enlist as allies. Probably the touchiest question of all is posed by the India-Pakistan standoff. China is a firm friend of the Islamabad government, which is suppressing in East Pakistan precisely the kind of revolutionary movement that Peking is pledged to support elsewhere...
Crucial Issue. The touchiest matter is the question of nuclear weapons, always a crucial issue in Japanese politics because of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The oblique language of the treaty in this regard-that the "U.S. would not exercise the right to store nuclear weapons on Okinawa" unless Japan agrees -stems from the fact that the U.S. has never officially acknowledged that it has nuclear weapons on Okinawa. There are, in fact, quite a few of them. Last week the Defense and State departments jointly proposed to the White House that hundreds of nuclear bombs, ground-to-ground rockets, atomic land...