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...said. "We can go in and ask the spokesman what's going on, but we won't get very much." At the outset of the campaign, Israeli Defense Minister Ariel Sharon placed a blanket over news from the front, censoring film and dispatches and issuing only sparse communiqués. Israeli correspondents called it a "fogout" or "grayout," but at times it seemed more like a blackout. In past Middle East wars, Israeli editors were given deep background briefings. "This time we are getting nothing, nothing," said Jerusalem Post Editor Ari Rath...
...very long way from satisfying the U.S., which had campaigned for restrictions on the amount as well as the cost of credit extended to the Soviet bloc. As late as Saturday evening the Europeans were trying to keep all mention of East-West trade out of the final communiqué, to the displeasure of American negotiators. Nonetheless, making the Soviets pay more for loans would constitute a first step toward removing what Washington regards as a Western subsidy to Communist economies. Said one senior U.S. official: "The President will continue on this course after the summit. It is important...
There will be virtually no debate on these issues at the Bonn summit, which is largely ceremonial. Each head of state will have about twelve minutes to present a speech before the four-hour meeting recesses. The final communiqué, which may be split into two sections to accommodate France's reluctance to agree to any military statement, is being worked out in advance...
Anyone who has closely observed the course of [the allies'] summit diplomacy and its results, however, cannot help noticing that the scale of the harmonious final communiqués is out of all proportion to the actual results or even to the atmosphere of the talks. The economic summits of recent years have shown that growing domestic difficulties have made these meetings more and more a forum for mutual recriminations in which various governments try to shift their responsibility for national aberrations onto others. Hence it is to be feared that European governments will succumb to the temptation...
...Chinese accuse Washington of sustaining the old "two Chinas" policy that plainly is incompatible with the provisions of the Shanghai Communiqué. Peking has threatened to downgrade relations with the U.S. if the Administration continues to give military support to Taiwan. Such a step would be a severe foreign policy defeat for the Administration...