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...similar incident in The Netherlands five years ago. At that time, a Chinese delegation barricaded itself inside its house in The Hague for five months rather than submit to police questioning about the sudden death of a colleague who had apparently attempted to defect. During that time, the Dutch chargé d'affaires in Peking was forced to remain a prisoner in his legation...
...opposed to a truce with Israel. China supports ongoing conflict partly because it wants to counteract any Soviet-American cooperation, partly because it wants to appear as the champion of revolutionary forces. Chou received a delegation of the Palestine Liberation Organization in Peking last week, and the Chinese chargé d'affaires in Baghdad has reportedly promised the guerrillas unlimited aid. Chinese aid so far has consisted mainly of small arms that are shipped to the Iraqi port of Basra and trucked overland to Jordan...
...plans in Cambodia, beyond their aim of regaining use of the sanctuaries, are still far from clear. The U.S. raids obviously weakened the 40,000 Communist troops in Cambodia, but not enough to keep them from placing the Lon Nol government "in a very difficult position," as the U.S. chargé d'affaires in Phnom-Penh, Lloyd M. Rives, puts it mildly. The Communist rampages through Cambodia's towns that began before the U.S. moved against the sanctuaries constituted open aggression against a neutral state. Unfortunately for Cambodia, the U.S. invasion tended to obscure that fact...
...American embassy is going through the throes of reorganization and self-doubt. Located in former servants' quarters behind a modest villa occupied by Chargé d'Affaires Lloyd M. Rives, the embassy is in a sullen mood. Columnist Joseph Kraft had written a devastating article about the military attache, Colonel William Pietsch, 47, accusing him of not knowing what is going on. That same weekend, after only a month or so in the country, Pietsch was hastily pulled back to the Pentagon...
...Cultural Revolution, Peking broke the chain of meetings. No further direct contacts between the two powers took place until U.S. Ambassador to Poland Walter Stoessel, a veteran Foreign Service officer, chatted with a Chinese diplomat at a Warsaw reception six weeks ago. Later, he talked for an hour with Chargé d'Affaires Lei Yang at the Chinese embassy...