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Unfortunately for Ford, the Helsinki Conference both coincided with, and helped to inspire, a curious rise in skepticism about the value of detente. The Communist triumphs in Viet Nam and Cambodia, the growing Communist threat in Portugal and, to a lesser extent in Italy, have apparently set off a reflex action in many Americans of taking their frustrations and disappointments out on the Soviets. While Moscow is hardly remote from any of these events, it is not the main villain. Part of the trouble is that detente, so highly touted by its originators, had aroused unrealistic expectations. On a more...
...lesser-known members of Nixon's Watergate crew, prison and penury have been the most painful problems. After seven months in prison, former Mitchell Deputy Jeb Stuart Magruder is employed as vice president of a religious foundation in Colorado Springs at half his former $36,000 Government salary. Egil ("Bud") Krogh has been hired as an assistant to Republican Congressman Peter McCloskey of California at $16,000; he drew $40,000 in Nixon's Transportation Department...
Ultimately, only 19 of the 46 OAU heads of state turned up at Kampala. Three nations-Tanzania, Zambia and Botswana-boycotted the assemblage to protest Big Daddy's presence in the chair, and 24 others sent lesser delegations. The unexpected overthrow of Nigeria's Yakubu Gowon at mid-meeting cast another pall. Four participants -Congo's Marien Ngouabi, Gabon's Omar Bongo, Cameroon's Ahmadou Ahidjo and Niger's Seyni Kountché -quickly lit out for home. "Maybe they're not exactly afraid," commented one Arab delegate. "Just prudent...
...Harvard Summer Chamber Players have augmented their regular series of Monday night concerts with a special one this Saturday night in Paine Hall. Two of the group's professional artists--flutist Paula Robison and Cellist Laurence Lesser--will join the younger artists in performing the famous Nieissen woodwind quintet along with trio sonatas from the baroque period. The concert will be free, and to make the evening complete, refreshments will be served. Paine Hall (music building...
Shakespeare wrote a tragedy, Coriolanus. There followed a group of four plays--Pericles, Cymbeline, The Winter's Tale and The Tempest--which constituted a novel genre, the tragicomic romance. Henry VIII. also of lesser quality, reverted to the history genre; and Shakespeare concluded by writing a part of The Two Noble Kinsmen...