Word: banqueting
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...were severed. The U.S. had agreed to reduce weapons sales to Taiwan under the act, yet in the last fiscal year such sales increased 35%, to $783 million, before falling back to about $735 million. "We welcome the repeated promises of the U.S. Government leaders," said Zhao at a banquet for Reagan, to "strictly pursue a one-China policy. We expect these promises to be faithfully carried out in action." In private he told Reagan his government wants a "considerable" reduction in arms sales to Taipei. Deng mentioned Taiwan to Reagan in private, but gingerly, describing it as "a knot...
...looked like a scene from The King and I, in which a proper English governess frantically coaches Oriental courtiers in the rudiments of Occidental custom. All week, for five hours a day, 140 uniformed Chinese waiters and waitresses marched in stiff single file through an empty hotel banquet hall, placed plates on cloth-covered tables and then returned to remove them. The drills were but one of many painstaking preparations for the "reciprocal banquet" President Reagan hosted in Peking last Saturday night...
...state dinner for 600 Chinese and American guests was one of the largest ever hosted outside the U.S. It was also the first major Western banquet not held in an embassy or a government hall. During his 1975 state visit, for example President Gerald Ford gave a Chinese banquet in Peking's Great Hall of the People. The Reagans instead chose the newly completed Great Wall Hotel. A 1,007-room glass-and-steel high-rise jointly built by Chinese and American developers, the hotel is a symbol of China's growing Western ties and its quest...
...banquet hall's somber maroon decor was brightened with pink gladiolas from Guangdong province, some 1,100 miles south of Peking, and arranged on 60 tables for ten The multinational place settings included German chinaware Irish linen and French crystal, candelabras and silverware. A twelve-piece Chinese orchestra trained feverishly for two weeks with sheet music sent over by the White House: works by George Gershwin and Irving Berlin, along with Reagan's favorite diplomatic overture, Rodgers and Hammerstein's Getting to Know...
...United States Rugby Union, which sponsors the championship, has provided inexpensive housing ($5 a night) and a free banquet for the ruggers, but is unable to finance the transcontinental flight...