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Partly Sandbagged. In his more weighty public remarks, Nixon, inadvertently or not, did exactly what the Chinese would have wanted. At the opening banquet, hosted by Hua Kuo-feng, he seemed to paraphrase China's own foreign policy position by saying: "There are, of course, some who believe that the mere act of signing a statement of principles or a diplomatic conference will bring lasting peace. This is naive." Many believed that Nixon was alluding to the Ford Administration's signing of the Helsinki declaration with Moscow, an act strongly condemned by China. Nixon denied that interpretation...
Nixon returned Peking's hospitality with a lavish dinner for his hosts in the Great Hall of the People. The Chinese, however, refused to allow him to pay for the ten-course banquet (including "eight-jewelled pigeon" stuffed with lotus root and virgin mushrooms, cream-of-chestnut puree, and other delicacies...
...Third World policies and invites Lima to consult regularly with Washington "to discuss issues of common concern." In Brazil, the Secretary appraised the country as a relatively advanced society that still tends to support Third World demands against the rich nations. As he put it during a banquet in Brasilia, it "stands astride the great international challenge of our time: the gap between the developed and the developing worlds...
...comments (see box) are themselves worth the price of the novel. Vidal has no peers at breathing movement and laughter into the historical past. His book teems with offbeat details: Tilden's dyspepsia and private collection of erotic literature; the Petronian orgy of a White House banquet ("25 courses and six good wines"); the surprisingly low and musical quality of Grant's voice. Even though the results have been in for 100 years, Vidal marshals his research so that the 1876 election reads like a cliffhanger...
...America, Margaret Trudeau faced some heat at home last week. Margaret, 27, wife of Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, 56, had offended sticklers for protocol by wearing one of her husband's old campaign T shirts in Cuba, by toasting the women's movement during a state banquet in Mexico, and by singing a song she had written for the wife of Venezuelan President Carlos Andres Perez in Caracas. When Margaret heard fans of an Ottawa ra dio show complaining of her conduct over the air, she placed a tearful call to the station...