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...Problem. The withdrawal of the bill was a humiliating setback for the conscientious Ullman, who hoped to gain the stature of his Ways and Means predecessor Wilbur Mills. Yet the defeat was less a reflection on Ullman's legislative craft than on the condition of Congress, and for that matter, of the country. Said an Ullman aide: "The problem is persuading people that there is a problem. For a lot of people, we're adding a tax to no problem." Yet the U.S. continues to buy huge quantities of oil from the Middle East, remaining perilously dependent...
...Soares and his beleaguered Socialists, the closing of Republica was perhaps the most ominous setback in their struggle for survival. Only four weeks ago, in Portugal's first free elections in half a century, the Socialists outpolled everybody, with 38% of the vote, and even carried what had been considered Communist strongholds in Lisbon, Oporto and the agricultural south. The middle-of-the-road Popular Democrats won 26% of the vote. The Communists ran a poor third with only...
...with loss of only a handful of Russian lives. During the past year, ideologists writing in Soviet party journals have quietly reflected the Kremlin's glee. In addition to the U.S. disaster in Indochina, they have pointed to reverses perceived as signs of capitalist disintegration. They include the setback to Secretary of State Henry Kissinger's peacemaking efforts in the Middle East, the rise of a Marxist-tinged military regime in Portugal, Greece's virtual withdrawal from NATO, Turkey's anger about American policy over Cyprus and the economic crisis facing the U.S., Western Europe...
...failure of U.S. policy in Cambodia and Viet Nam, and its setback in the Middle East, clearly reflects the change in the "correlation of forces" to the disadvantage of the U.S. This change is partly an inevitable development: a world divided between superpowers and non-powers is a historic anomaly, and the increasing ability of smaller powers to frustrate great powers is a return to normality. But the change is also a factor of American decline: the decline of our willingness to allocate resources and take action in support of our foreign policy...
...with Nixon, who delighted in occasionally deflating his foreign policy adviser. Ford is straight-arrow all the way. When he finds Kissinger expendable, the Secretary will be the first to know. For the moment, the President does not blame him for the debacle in Viet Nam or the setback in the Middle East. A top aide says that Ford still believes Kissinger has "an inner sense of strategy that can put all this back together in the next year or 18 months...