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Ideological Problems. Why did Liao leave? He had served in The Hague since 1963, and thus avoided most of the excesses of the Cultural Revolution. As an economics specialist, he played a role in persuading Dutch businessmen to invest in China, and promotions came routinely. When Peking summoned its senior...
Left Face. Velasco and his colleagues appear to be committed to a collision course. They can hardly back down from such an extreme stand without totally losing face in Peru. After all, they overthrew President Fernando Belauúde Terry largely because he failed to execute an outright takeover of...
In fact, it seems that the Nixon Administration has embarked on a new kind of Brinksmanship and that Congress has okayed a program whose ends are radically different from those it approved. At a recent press conference President Nixon dismissed the idea that Sentinel was intended "simply for the purpose...
Train's impending appointment became open knowledge in Washington early last month after Nixon aides leaked the news in hope of offsetting Hickel's extremely maladroit comments on utilizing natural resources rather than preserving them. In discussing Train's Senate hearing for confirmation this week, Hickel said...
In a broadly worded eight-page brief filed in Manhattan's Federal District Court, the trustbusters charged IBM with blocking competitors from "an adequate opportunity to compete." One complaint was that companies that sell only hardware or software or maintenance services could not easily win customers because IBM offered...