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CHAI SPOKE a word of greeting, praised Mao Tse-tung and Chou En-lai for beginning negotiations, mentioned Presidents Nixon and Ford, and thanked Carter, Vance and Zbigniew Brzezinski. He added that normalization would "certainly play an active role in combatting the expansion and aggression of hegemonism and upholding peace and stability in Asia and the world." He expressed the belief that all would go well, as well as the conviction that this was a momentous and great occasion. He ended by toasting the normalization and friendship between the two countries and the health of America's leaders...
Many of those invited were State Department types, journalists and stalwart Chinese and American supporters of the People's Republic. In addition to Vice President Mondale, Secretary of State Vance and Dr. Brzezinski also represented the Carter administration...
...Zbigniew Brzezinski, Carter's national security advisor, said yesterday Carter would reiterate his support for Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, who has the support of the other three leaders as well...
Finally, in an oblique dig at former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, who attached primary importance to Soviet-American detente, Brzezinski adds: "What we are doing in our relations with China should have been done anyway, whether our relations with the Soviet Union were much better or much worse...
Ball's conclusions differed from the views of the man who invited him to Washington to review U.S. policy on Iran: Carter's National Security Adviser, Zbigniew Brzezinski. Until now at least, Brzezinski has held that the U.S. should back the Shah staunchly, in part because of the unsettling effects any wavering about the Shah might have on such other monarchies as Saudi Arabia and Jordan. Officials insisted that as of last week, however, there was no disagreement within the Administration on fundamental points. Certainly the Ball report's conclusions are shared by most Middle East experts at the State...