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Carter's answer to Castro and, more important, an explanation of the next steps the Administration plans for resolving the dispute with Moscow were expected this Monday evening, when the President was scheduled to make a nationally televised address. To prepare for the speech, Carter continued to consult with his top aides throughout the weekend. Vance canceled a scheduled appearance at Yale University and called off a trip to Panama so he would be available for talks. He had been planning to join Vice President Mondale at the ceremonies that will turn over most of the Canal Zone...
...significant interests at stake in our total relationship with the Soviet Union." Thus the matter of the Soviet troops must be kept "in proper perspective." Although that message seemed to be aimed at Senate hawks, Vance also spoke more softly to the Soviets than his President had. In an address to the U.N., he merely observed that "the East-West relationship can deteriorate dangerously whenever one side fails to respect the security interests of the other...
...attitude possible or plausible, and one big reason is oil. Since 1972, when geologists drilling into the cactus-studded wasteland of Tabasco state tapped into the gigantic Reforma oil and gas field, Mexico has turned up one immense deposit of petroleum after another. In his state of the union address in early September, López Portillo boasted that Mexico now had proven combined reserves of 45 billion bbl. of oil and gas. Officials of Pemex, the national oil com pany, predict that as many as 200 billion bbl. of crude may eventually be uncovered...
Though his homily chided Americans for material and physical excesses, the audience responded warmly to him. interrupting his address 40 times to applaud. Many people in the crowd had waited to see him for six hours...
While people make up their minds, Title IX remains in limbo. And nobody at HEW knows what will happen. Only one thing is for sure. The combatants, some fear, will never be happy. No regulation, as one Harvard official says, "can possibly address the idiosyncracies of every university." And I thought we knew that before last December...