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...just a couple of Jewish diplomats," said Robert Strauss to Henry Kissinger when they met on the veranda of Jerusalem's King David Hotel last week. Strauss was in town on the first official stop of an eight-day tour of the Middle East as President Carter's super-ambassador to the Palestinian-autonomy talks. The former Secretary of State apparently was in Jerusalem on private business-even though his journey was embellished with nearly all the trappings of a state occasion (see box). In fact, Kissinger was quite apologetic about the coincidence of the trips. Said...
Administration officials rebuffed the idea of a secret negotiating role for Kissinger. Although his path coincides suspiciously with the general itinerary of Jimmy Carter's Middle East Ambassador Robert Strauss, who will be visiting the area this week, the Administration's troubleshooter seemed unconcerned. "Henry even called me up to make sure his trip would not complicate things for us," said Strauss. "In no way does he intend to get involved in our work...
Alien begins with a succession of long, slow pans through a spaceship, like 2001 without the Strauss. I was rocking in my seat with excitement: what movie would dare to have such a boring beginning if it weren't going to be scary as hell later? Unfortunately, those opening shots set the tempo for the whole film, with the alien's attacks serving as shrieking exclamation points...
Moreover, Strauss was in Cairo in April with a U.S. trade delegation and apparently impressed President Sadat by telling him that the obfuscation of the Egyptian bureaucracy was an obstacle to U.S. corporate investment in his country...
...strong, active negotiator," Strauss says. "I'm not a passive negotiator. I'm not a meditative pipe-smoking type who sits and listens and then summarizes at the end. I'm very aggressive...