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...scarcely out of his mouth before Rumania's Ceausescu was scribbling a reply on the notepad in front of him and demanding the floor. The Rumanians had made clear that they would attend the summit only on the understanding that the internal affairs of any Communist Party, present or absent, would not be discussed...
Originally, South Viet Nam's President Thieu requested a session with President Nixon in Washington. Secretary of State William Rogers, on a visit to Saigon, suggested a rendezvous halfway. The danger of antiwar demonstrations, at least, should be absent at the U.S.-owned garrison isle of Midway. Regardless of the setting, the Midway meeting-designed to align U.S. and South Vietnamese positions for the peace negotiations-may well be more important than any of the five previous summits that have punctuated...
...that none of Immanuel Velikovsky's number of books are curiously absent from Harvard's collection? Could it be because Velikovsky launches a plausible attack against some of the scientists most cherished Darwinist theories? J. Cooper Dorchester
...world's most quintessential Frenchman is partly Irish: his maternal grandmother was born in County Down, Ulster (then a part of Ireland). The main purpose of his trip is not sentimental, though. With the sort of disdainful gesture that is so specially his, De Gaulle has decided to absent himself from France during the election campaign and the voting on June 1 to pick his successor...
...looked pleased. There seemed to be something special about this almost completely female gathering. I got the feeling that all the women present were proud of Miss Bas-Cohain, perhaps because they identified with her as a woman. Among men, there's usually a competitive atmosphere, but that was absent here. Perhaps because they are still a minority group when it comes to having brilliant careers or even jobs, women feel something like the collective pride of the oppressed whenever one of them "beats the system" and stands...