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...event in recent memory has more angered both the President and the American public than the forcible return of a defecting Lithuanian sailor to his Soviet ship last month. Simas (short for Simonas) Kudirka sought asylum aboard the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Vigilant during a rendezvous-to discuss North Atlantic fishing rights-between the two vessels in U.S. territorial waters off Cape Cod. The incident resulted in the suspension of Rear Admiral William B. Ellis, commander of the Coast Guard's First District in Boston, his chief of staff, Captain Fletcher Brown, and Vigilant's skipper, Commander Ralph...
...Rome last week, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization tackled the problem by inviting 400 scientists from 40 maritime nations to discuss man's abuse of the seas. The biggest and most important such conference to date produced more than 140 papers describing the danger. For example, two French scientists, Georges Bellan and Jean-Marie Peres, expressed alarm about the Mediterranean. Not only is human waste soiling beaches from Tel Aviv to Trieste, they said, but the "self-cleansing" power of the sea itself can no longer cope with the volume of untreated excrement and industrial waste...
...report did not discuss White House-State Department relationships under President Nixon. But Nixon's conviction that foreign policy is his forte and the strong influence of Henry Kissinger, the President's national security adviser, are unlikely to improve State's standing in the Washington power hierarchy. When President Nixon was preparing his State of the World address last February, State's contribution was 500 pages of diffuse, carefully hedged suggestions that had to be reworked by White House staffers in favor of a more forthright, decisive declaration...
Heath, who is scheduled to meet with President Nixon in Washington this week to discuss foreign policy, has been concerned primarily with his long-range plans for re-establishing Britain as a major world leader. Many of his critics feel that as a result he has failed to come to terms with the day-to-day problems of running the government. They complain that his unexpected victory over Labor in June has turned his natural cockiness into outright arrogance...
Bolted Borders. In this final installment, Khrushchev does not discuss the events leading to his own downfall in 1964. But he does offer some thoughts about life inside his vast country. "If you try to control your artists too tightly, there will be no clashing of opinions, consequently no criticism, and consequently no truth," he says. In a similar vein, he says of the country's stifling travel restrictions: "Why should we build a good life and then keep our borders bolted with seven locks...