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...Martha's Vineyard in January, have yet to be made public. Now it seems that some new disclosures-and possibly more trouble for the Senator-are imminent. District Attorney Edmund Dinis last week requested that a grand jury look into the case, a move that increased the likelihood that the entire Chappaquiddick affair may soon be aired in open court...
...whose foreign policy is no longer distorted by the lunatic frenzies of the Cultural Revolution, might be persuaded to join. Last week's demonstration of Indochina's chronic instability may eventually prove persuasive enough to bring all the nations concerned to the bargaining table. Nothing, in all likelihood, could do more to please Norodom Sihanouk, or Souvanna Phouma, or Richard Nixon...
Sudden Switch. The crucial factor in East Germany's sudden switch was in all likelihood the influence of the Soviets, who are also engaged in negotiations with Bonn. Concerned that a deadlock between the two Germanys would hamper progress on other fronts, the Soviets apparently prevailed upon East German Party Boss Walter Ulbricht to give his go-ahead to the Brandt-Stoph summit. When the meeting was finally scheduled, the Soviet embassy in Bonn issued a terse statement that left no doubt about Moscow's attitude. Said the Russians: "We welcome...
...would ask the Russians and Chinese "to exercise friendly pressure on the Viet Cong and Vietnamese not to infiltrate our borders." Unless the Communist powers do so, Sihanouk went on, the result will be the "Americanization of Cambodia." Sihanouk no longer appears to be overly worried about the likelihood of Americanization. "Continued American presence in the region is good for Cambodia," he told Flamini, "because it maintains the balance of power...
...refusing for too long to permit any increase in the nation's money supply. Last fall Okun saw a 25% chance of unmistakable recession in 1970 and a 10% chance of continued boom. Now he thinks the chance of a continued boom has fallen to zero and the likelihood of a full-blown recession has risen...