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...spokesman for Eban admitted as much when he told reporters: "The likelihood of such an attack became apparent some hours before, and information was given to the U.S. and other governments together with an assurance that Israel would not make any preventive move and would favor action by interested parties to warn Cairo and Damascus against carrying out what was clearly their intention...
With European diplomats, Kissinger sought to leave the impression that President Nixon's trip is still a possibility this year. No dates were mentioned, however, and Western envoys are now more or less resigned to the likelihood that the constitutional crisis over the Watergate tapes and the plight of Vice President Agnew will force Nixon to postpone his visit until 1974. Kissinger looked over a draft proposal outlining long-range Common Market goals and priorities and politely suggested that the nine nations try for something more specific than vague generalities. Both the U.S. and the members of the European...
...serious the President is about pushing his new tax schemes is quite another matter. In his rather rambling and contradictory statement, Laird admitted that the currently hostile temper of Congress and the pressure of its other business ruled out any likelihood that the program would be enacted this session. Laird seemed willing to wait. The ideas were being considered, he said, in an Administration move toward "discussing ideas in the open." Even Shultz's outburst, he said later, was part of a new give-and-take. "This is the kind of thing I am trying to encourage...
...ROTC issue once again introduced into Faculty debate, there is a strong likelihood that the caucuses would form once again, thwarting Rosovsky's goal of de-politicization and potentially straining his relationship with President...
With each passing month, the Soviet Union seems to loosen a bit more the closed attitude that for years epitomized its contacts with the West. Internally, however, the walls of official censorship between the Russian government and its citizens are as high as ever-with little likelihood of their coming down in the near future. According to a secret Soviet directive to all media editors and censors obtained by TIME, there remains in Russia a multitude of subjects that cannot be printed or transmitted by radio or TV without prior approval of the requisite authorities...