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...alone in his deference to CIA wishes. Colby or his deputies contacted at least 10 other news organizations they knew to be working on the story, and convinced each to "embargo" the news...
...criticism was a clear reference to statements by U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and President Ford on the possibility of using force to prevent economic "strangulation" of the West by the oil producers. Algeria had proposed that OPEC members make a blunt pledge to impose another oil embargo if any member was attacked, but the final declaration merely noted that the cartel would take "immediate and effective measures to counteract such threats with a united response...
...with Cuba is a welcome call for a long overdue step in U.S. foreign policy. Kennedy's statement came in response to Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger '50's earlier announcement that the U.S. was planning to ask the Organization of American States to lift the 14-year embargo on trade with Cuba, an action tantamount in itself to ending the embargo...
...Delhi's angry response to the embargo repeal was inspired in part by a feeling that Pakistan would not have attacked India during the 1965 and 1971 wars unless it had been well supplied with American arms...
Whatever the reason, India's resentment about what it feels is a renewed Washington "tilt" toward Pakistan will not make life easier for William Saxbe, the U.S. new Ambassador to India, who was in Bangkok when the embargo was lifted. Saxbe went to some pains to point out that he opposed the Administration's decision, although he said he was obliged to support it. Even though ranking State Department officials are confident that the storm "will blow over pretty soon," the spectacle of the U.S. ambassador sightseeing in Thailand to delay taking up his post in India...