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Mutual Fears. The Greek-Albanian example is part of a growing trend toward regional cooperation. The area is divided into five political camps: pro-Western, nonaligned, Maoist, and two variations of Moscow-oriented Communism. But leaders of the Balkans, motivated mainly by pragmatic economics and a desire to keep big powers from exploiting the region's problems for their own purposes, are making efforts to end old disputes. Yugoslavia, for example, has ended its old quarrel with Albania and is granting greater autonomy to the Albanian minority within its borders...
Pecking Order. At a Peking reception honoring the 30th anniversary of the Albanian Communist Party last week, a new Politburo pecking order emerged-and there were some stunning surprises. Predictably enough, Chou occupied Lin's No. 2 position. But No. 3 turned out to be none other than Mao's wife Chiang Ching. She was one of the reddest of the Red Guard leaders during the Cultural Revolution, and her rise may spell new power for the small nucleus of relatively youthful leftists in the Politburo. One of its key figures is Yao Wenyuan, who is rumored...
Three hours later, the important-question resolution was slapped down by a decisive margin of 59 votes to 55 (with 15 abstentions). With the "I.Q." gone, there was no holding off the Albanian resolution?or the expulsion of the Nationalists...
...been committed to the U.S. side. When he wearily took the rostrum to make some last procedural motions, he was hissed and booed. "There was an ugly mood in there," he said. "It was a gladiatorial atmosphere, an emotional release at seeing the U.S. get kicked around." When the Albanian resolution came up, shouts of "Si!" and "Oui!" rose as one delegate after another flipped a switch and lighted up the green YES light next to his country's name on the Assembly tote board. Eleven of Washington's 14 NATO partners either sided with the Albanian resolution or abstained...
...contrast, the Russians were dragging their feet. Though nominal supporters of the Albanian resolution, the Russians took no part in the lobbying around the rubber tree plants in the plush Delegates Lounge. Soon the Hungarians were passing around a joke: "For the U.S., one China is not enough; for the Russians, one is too many...