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Jimmy Carter called a secret meeting to try to get the State Department to quiet internal dissent about foreign policy. Secretary of Defense Harold Brown worried out loud on the Hill that the U.S. had no way to counter such surrogate Soviet forces as the Cubans in Africa. Chagrin hit the State Department when Chinese Vice Premier Teng Hsiao-p'ing, after his exuberant sojourn in the U.S., stopped in Tokyo on his way home and told the Japanese that America has shown indecision and "lacks direction" in handling the Iran crisis. Secretary of Energy James Schlesinger declared that...
...bolster the confidence of such apprehensive allies, Defense Secretary Harold Brown left last week on a ten-day tour of the Middle East. Among other matters, he would like to seal arrangements with Saudi Arabia to provide $200 million in military aid to buttress North Yemen against any possible incursions from the pro-Moscow regime in South Yemen. The U.S. also hopes to elicit a reaffirmation of continued Saudi financial aid for Egypt. In addition, the Administration is focusing on ways to enhance U.S. ties with Riyadh. Any tangible decline in U.S.-Saudi relations might force Egyptian President Anwar Sadat...
...Harold Burton, assistant vice president of the Bank of America, said more lower-level executive positions will be opening up for blacks in the next five years...
...good number apparently are not; the $40 bid is far above the market price of McGraw-Hill shares ($30 last week). Harold McGraw's cousin Donald, who was forced out of his posts as a company group president and director, but still owns 2.5% of the stock, said he was "annoyed" that the board did not at least negotiate with American Express...
Though the chairman has called the Amexco bid illegal, Donald McGraw dis missed that charge as "a ploy that Harold is using to pass by the stockholders be cause he does not want to sell at any price...