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...meantime, the trial of John Ehrlichman, Nixon's former top aide for domestic affairs, and three erstwhile White House "plumbers" was continuing in Washington. Ehrlichman is charged with one count of conspiracy and four counts of perjury: authorizing the plumbers' burglary of Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist hi September 1971 and then lying about his involvement hi the affair to the FBI and to a Watergate grand jury. Ehrlichman maintains that he knew nothing about the break-in until after it had occurred...
...Russia, Lake Baikal in Siberia and Yalta in the Crimea, the site of the controversial summit meeting of Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin during World War II. Speaking of the agreements he hoped they might reach, Brezhnev said, "I think we shall please people both in the United States and hi our Soviet land...
...same time that Nixon was hi the Middle East, the U.S. more or less patched up tattered relations with its European allies, who had gone their own way during the Middle East war and the subsequent Arab oil embargo. Henry Kissinger, who had been most angered by the Europeans' refusal to go along with the U.S. hi the winter, was all smiles at a meeting of NATO foreign ministers in Ottawa. He said, "I believe that the disagreements of the past year, which have resulted from the fact that we have dealt with serious people representing serious contributions...
...gave up nothing in SALT I that it had not already relinquished in reduced budgets for missiles. "While the U.S. had its eyes fixed on Viet Nam, the Soviet Union had been concentrating on vastly increasing its strategic armament." says Kremlinologist Richard Lowenthal. "The Soviets entered the SALT negotiations hi a much stronger position than they had been in [in the early '60s], so that any gains they made were done through increased power and not through negotiations...
...their aim is not history or biography, but careful journalism with final judgments held to a minimum. Marvin, 44, and Bernard, 52, have followed Kissinger around the world for CBS and have had access to a wide range of sources, including Kissinger himself, though the Secretary had no part hi the book's writing or editing. Their account of Kissinger ranges across his full career in the Nixon Administration, but the freshest and most controversial of their chapters deals with Kissinger's handling of the 1973 war in the Middle East. It is a vivid picture...