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Henry Kissinger wants to link future negotiations about the U.S. military presence in Europe to trade concessions. But in the current atmosphere of waning confidence, Europeans are increasingly resisting, suspicious and overly sensitive to the slightest nudging by Washington. TIME Correspondent David Tinnin reports that Kissinger's unkindest critics have already begun to claim that he is determined to keep Western Europe "in line" in much the same highhanded way that Brezhnev keeps his despotic hold on the East. Though this is clearly exaggerated, it nonetheless represents a foreboding element in Europe's new view of Washington...
...Marxist-oriented I.R.A. Official branch offered the unkindest rebuttal of all. When a Communist-backed revolt broke out in Sudan last year, one official remembered, Gaddafi captured some rebels as they passed through Libya and handed them over to Sudanese President Jaafar Numeiry for execution. That, said the I.R.A., hardly qualified him as a fellow revolutionary...
...Headwaiter. Some of the most illustrious names on the invitation list failed to make it. Regrets were sent by President Nixon (who dispatched Spiro Agnew instead), Queen Elizabeth II (who was represented by Prince Philip and Princess Anne) and, in the unkindest cut of all, French President Georges Pompidou, who sent Premier Jacques Chaban-Delmas. What was particularly grating was the fact that the Shah had given the affair such a heavily French accent. Taking note of this, Pompidou is reported by a Western diplomat to have said: "If I did go, they would probably make me the headwaiter...
Caesar's-wife attitude on conflict of interest, why had it not bothered to fire Station Chairman Max Kampelman, who is an adviser to Hubert Humphrey? Perhaps the unkindest cut of all was in the Woestendiek family's income. Kay isn't sure yet what she'll be earning from Martha, but it hardly will make up for Bill's lost salary...
...reference to "cut-price deals" was, perhaps, the unkindest cut of all. As a charter member of the International Air Transport Association we have been a leading proponent of observance of IATA regulations, which, among other things, prohibit deals or discounts...