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Arrival in Peking. Trip from airport to city. Meeting with Mao. First banquet in the Great Hall of the People...
...details of the trip are still secret, it is likely that in Peking the President and Mrs. Nixon will stay in a government guest house near the Jade Abyss Pool on the capital's western outskirts. On the evening of their arrival, there may well be a state banquet in the Great Hall of the People, the all-purpose government entertainment center. Before departing for Hangchow, the President, it is thought, will repay his hosts with a banquet, also in the Great Hall. The Chinese will supply the food, but Nixon is carrying in American champagne for the occasion...
...Forbidden City recall the might of Peking's earlier proprietors, the Mings and the Chings. The Communists have added their own monuments: tree-lined boulevards, the hundred-acre Tienanmen Square and the white-pillared Great Hall of the People, where the Nixons will likely be welcomed in a banquet room that seats 5,000 and rivals the old Imperial Palace in size...
...read the account by Eric Gordon in Harper's, a Maoist who had returned from China. But he is disillusioned, says Mr. Nwafor. Precisely, but why? (After all, he spent four years working there (and knew the language: does Mr. Nwafor?), and while he did not receive a farewell banquet ("as reported in the major Peking daily..."--preening ass!) he did spend two years under house arrest...
...songs of regional chauvinism and banners of ethnic pride exacerbate racial tension? That is a touchy question these days, what with black students hoisting a black-liberation flag in Newark classrooms and a black state legislator walking out of a banquet in Richmond when the band struck up Carry Me Back to Old Virginia...