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...when Kissinger concluded the Viet Nam negotiations that were to win him a Nobel Peace Prize. (The second volume, in preparation now, covers the four years ending in January 1977.) Kissinger's work is much concerned with the calculus of power: when and how it should be applied or withheld; how it affects a nation's conduct; how it must be interwoven with concepts not only of national interest but of national honor. The book offers an unparalleled inside account of the high-stakes bureaucratic battles to control policy and of the forging of new relationships with old enemies...
Garrity's order to desegrate the schools became public on June 21, 1974. At that time, close to six million dollars in federal funds had been withheld from Springfield and Boston for over a year, following the Massachusetts Supreme Court decision that found both cities guilty of violations of the U.S. Civil Rights Act. Throughout the remainder of the summer, education administrators, teachers, and police officials rushed to prepare to bus 20,000 Bostonians and 4100 Springfield residents...
...Middle East settlement. TIME'S Cairo bureau chief Dean Brelis learned last week that Saudi Arabia, through a third party, recently deposited $500 million in a Denver bank. It was a sum that the Saudis had promised Sadat for the purchase of 50 F-5s and had withheld after Camp David. Although F-5s are no longer on Sadat's shopping list, the money is presumably there for him to buy the F-4 Phantoms he has decided on instead...
Some details, including the precise size of the wage increase, were withheld until the settlement could be reviewed by officers of the GM locals, meeting in Detroit this week. A local-by-local ratification vote by all members should be completed within ten days...
...before the Ethics Act was passed, the Justice Department decided that the law did not apply. Last week Ralph E. Ulmer submitted to Federal Judge William B. Bryant his resignation as foreman of the grand jury and accused the Administration of "duplicity." Among other things, he said, "information was withheld from the grand jury" and "a witness was encouraged to be less than candid with the FBI." Whatever the truth of these charges, they are exactly the kind of ugly accusations that appointment of a special prosecutor is supposed to dispel...