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...enlarging its role as a major international supplier of weapons. Even more intriguing: the U.S. choice of prospective new markets for sophisticated equipment. Last week Secretary of State William P. Rogers announced that President Nixon had authorized the sale of F-5E supersonic jet fighters to Marxist Chile and four other South American countries. Earlier, the State Department had indicated American willingness to sell the prestigious F-4 Phantom jet fighter-bomber to Saudi Arabia, a heavy financial backer of the Palestinian liberation movement against Israel. The department also disclosed that negotiations were under way for the sale of other...
...complained about Latin leaders spending huge sums on weapons and then seeking aid to feed their peoples. In 1968 Congress voted against further sales unless the President decided that they were important to the security of the United States. In announcing Nixon's waiver to permit sales to Chile, Argentina, Brazil, Colombia and Venezuela, the Administration put no emphasis on "security" interests. Rogers said that the policy of "paternalism" had not worked...
...sense, the troubled mood of inauguration day symbolized the difficult task of governing that faces Cámpora in the days ahead. Under the heavy-handed and economically inept military government of General Lanusse, inflation was a staggering 80% last year, third highest in the world (after Chile and Uruguay...
...dear brother," Amin wrote, "it is quite true that you have enough problems on your plate, and it is surprising that you have the zeal to add on fresh ones." Amin then ticked off some of the "problems": racial strife in the U.S., Viet Nam, the ITT fiasco in Chile, and, of course, Watergate: "At this moment you are uncomfortably sandwiched in that unfortunate affair." Big Daddy signed off with a heartfelt benison from one hard-pressed statesman to another: "I ask almighty God to help you solve your problems...
...single gravest threat to the survival of the species is the possibility of a nuclear holocaust. Such an event would necessarily upset the vital political experiments now underway in Chile, Greece and Uganda. Such an event would destroy the laboratory as well as the experiments occurring in it. In fact the only comforting thought about the possibility of a nuclear holocaust is that so little is at stake...