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...policy, but now virtually all of his diplomatic initiatives are in trouble, either at home or abroad. The proposed Panama Canal treaty, the Administration's only major breakthrough with a foreign government to date, is running into so much difficulty that the Administration almost certainly will have to abandon all hope of winning Senate approval this year. In suburban Washington, domestic opponents of the treaty are preparing a massive mailing of 5 million anti-treaty broadsides. In New York, only hours after he was briefed on the treaty by U.S. Negotiators Ellsworth Bunker and Sol Linowitz, California Republican Ronald...
...timing could not have been worse for discussion of another prickly issue: the U.S. defense treaty with Taiwan. Yet Secretary of State Cyrus Vance's visit to mainland China last week inevitably focused attention on Peking's insistence that the U.S. abrogate the treaty and thereby abandon another long-held position. To be sure, no one knew in May, when Vance's trip was scheduled, that it would coincide with the Panama debate; moreover, the Administration had been sharply criticized by Asian experts for ignoring China. Probably the impasse in U.S-Chinese relations will persist (see THE WORLD...
Keeping cool, of course, does not mean giving up. Far from it. Because it has refused to abandon its fundamental tenet-that Peking's leaders are revolutionary upstarts and not the legitimate rulers of China-the Nationalist regime established in Taipei by Chiang Kai-shek when he fled the mainland in 1949 has become a diplomatic Ishmael. Since 1971, when Taiwan was expelled from the U.N. to make room for Peking, a total of 39 countries have severed relations with Taipei. Today only 23 nations maintain diplomatic relations, and the U.S. and staunchly anti-Communist Saudi Arabia...
...fiction with fact. People might get confused if you just threw the fiction in pellmell, but they won't if it's properly labeled and you don't try to pass it off as truth." But the soap bored its few readers. How to abandon the series? Author Tom Fitzgerald simply killed off all his characters by having them eat infected clams...
...implies strongly that she would somehow find the funds to hire more firemen, improve the mediocre criminal justice system, and otherwise "improve the quality of life." She repeatedly emphasizes the need to modernize and upgrade the rapid transit system. To do that she would abandon the $1 billion Westway road project, a controversial plan favored by the business community and many political leaders because it would promote development in Lower Manhattan. Most of the money would come from Washington, but under legislation pushed by Abzug while she was in Congress, such highway funds can be "traded in" for mass-transit...