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That did not come as a surprise, but the failure of Premier Chou En-lai to appear on Oct. 1 did. The night before, Chou had presided triumphantly at a banquet in Peking's Great Hall of the People. While 1,500 Chinese viPs and 4,500 foreign guests thunderously applauded, Chou had drunk a toast to unity "on behalf of Great Leader Chairman Mao, of the Party's Central Committee and of the Chinese government." After his 45-minute appearance, Chou, 76, apparently returned to a Peking hospital to continue treatment for what most analysts believe...
Moon's public religious face is that of a brotherhood-minded Christian clergyman and founder of the "ecumenical" Unification Church. At a Waldorf banquet in his honor last week, a monsignor offered the opening prayer, and another Catholic, Seer Jeane Dixon, gushed, "Bless you, Reverend Moon, for your message...
Actually, Moscow has been striving to depersonalize détente for some time. During a banquet at the June summit, for example, Nixon exuberantly toasted his "personal relationship" with Brezhnev; in the Russian translation that came out later the word personal was deleted. By early last week, said a Western diplomat in Moscow, "the Soviet view was that it is regrettable, but not the end of the world, if Nixon goes." The Soviets were relieved when Gerald Ford announced that he would keep Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. The Russians also hope that a political honeymoon for Ford might mean...
...Kremlin banquet was over, the plates removed, and in the spirit of good fellowship, Soviet Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev rose to toast President Nixon. Then the Soviet leader launched a few intercontinental missives at the critics of détente. "Our American guests," he declared, "know better than we about those who oppose international détente, who favor whipping up the arms race and returning to the methods and procedures of the cold war." Everyone at the table knew whom Brezhnev was aiming at: Washington Senator Henry ("Scoop") Jackson, 62, the blunt, stubborn, increasingly powerful leader...
...ceremonial audience, Chou relinquished his customary place of honor at Mao's right hand to Vice Premier Teng Hsiao-ping and sat on Mao's left instead. Chou conducted two hours of energetic negotiations with Bhutto the following day but excused himself from attending a banquet that evening, explaining, "I am not very well because...