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...Syrian foreign ministers make separate visits to Washington, with Kissinger acting as their go-between. Negotiations over Golan, however, promise to be considerably tougher than those over Sinai. At least initially, Jerusalem is expected to resist anything more than minor adjustments. From Israel's viewpoint, as a high-level Jerusalem official told TIME Correspondent Marlin Levin with extraordinary candor, deliberate delay is especially advantageous...
Last week, with a new interim peace agreement apparently in the offing, the Israelis were once again on the receiving end of U.S. largesse. A team of four high-level Israeli economic experts was summoned to Washington to discuss an aid package of military support, grants and economic assistance whose price tag has risen from $2.5 billion to $3.25 billion. One State Department official had no hesitation in characterizing this sum-most of it in the form of an outright grant that Israel will not have to repay-as a "reward" for the new peace agreement. Of the additional...
...Assistant Secretary of State who deals with the part of the world where the plan would go into effect. Understandably, the assistant secretaries are now wary of supporting such operations; they are afraid that some day they may have to testify about them before a congressional committee. As one high-level source puts it: "There is inevitably a good deal of bureaucratic ass-covering going...
Under such a law, the State Department spokesman who lied about Francis Gary Powers' U-2 flight over Russia in 1960 could presumably have been prosecuted. Certainly the Nixon Administration's high-level lying about the B-52 bombing of Cambodia would have been actionable. Of course, Ted Kennedy is politician enough not to want to apply the law to campaign promises and political rhetoric - such a prohibition might jail nearly every elected official in the nation, depending on how rigorously one defined...
...avoid strikes or outrageous settlements in the future, both the unions and the municipalities might do well to agree on arbitration by high-level impartial boards. But to be effective, arbitration must be binding, which many mayors oppose. Argues Lawrence Cohen, mayor of St. Paul: "The ability of the municipality to pay seems to be the last item to be considered in binding arbitration. Some feel that the arbitration process is equal to flipping a coin." Unable to settle among themselves on the means to make peace without inflation, the mayors agreed last week only on a watery resolution opposing...