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That tense press conference exchange last week underscored a persistent problem for the Secretary. He is undamaged by the main Watergate scandals, but his credibility has been nicked nonetheless. The reason: he has appeared to be less than candid about his role hi the White House efforts to plug leaks of national security secrets to the press. They included FBI wiretaps from 1969 to 1971 of four reporters and 13 government officials, as well as the formation of the special White House unit known as the plumbers...
...extent of supplying the names of people who had had access to the sensitive documents." He also claimed ignorance of formation of the plumbers unit and the fact that one of his former aides, David Young, was working for it. Part of those hearings were conducted hi private, and the transcript contains some ambiguity...
...Nations troops from Canada, Poland, Austria and Peru moved in to begin keeping peace as Syrian and Israeli forces started pulling back from the cease-fire line. Syrians cheered as Israeli units prepared to pull out of Quneitra, only to discover the retreating troops were leveling the remaining buildings hi the bombed-out city to hamper reoccupation. The speedy pace of the withdrawal had been set in Geneva, where Syrian and Israeli officers completed their technical agreements on cease-fire lines and the thin-out of forces in four days instead of the five allotted under cease-fire terms. "They...
...Dilemma. Amid all the delight over Kissinger's Middle East miracle, one group remained dourly uncertain. At Arab League headquarters in Cairo, 177 shirt-sleeved delegates of the Palestine National Council-a parliament of Palestinians hi exile-gathered to debate their next move. All the delegates also belong to the Palestine Liberation Organization, a conglomerate of six guerrilla organizations led by Yasser Arafat, which faces a dilemma: How can it continue to hold out against Israeli presence hi its homeland and at the same time withstand pressure from Egypt, Syria and Saudi Arabia to join the movement toward peace...
...opposing P.L.O. factions at least agree on two points. They will not send a delegation to the peace talks in Ge neva unless United Nations Resolution 242 is amended; this resolution, which has been considered the keystone to peace efforts hi the Middle East since 1967, refers to the Palestinians merely as a "refugee problem." Said the P.L.O.'s Gamal Sourani last week: "The world must understand that ours is not a refugee problem. It is a national and political problem...