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...that had gone before, as well as apprehensions for what was to come. In a red-carpeted chamber of Peking's Great Hall of the People, the British Ambassador to China, Sir Richard Evans, sat at one end of a long table covered with a green-tasseled cloth. At the other end sat Chinese Deputy Foreign Minister Zhou Nan. Behind them, the 50 or so officials from both countries, who had endured 22 rounds and 24 months of serpentine negotiation, stood stiffly at attention. Finally, the two men appended their initials to a series of documents, smiled, stood...
...that no one seemed surprised when the ceremony was delayed for five hours on Thursday. After all, Shimon Peres and Yitzhak Shamir had been up until 5 a.m. negotiating the last detail. Finally, at 3:45 p.m., the two met again in the Knesset basement. Sitting at a blue cloth-covered table and surrounded by colleagues, Labor Leader Peres and Likud Chief Shamir signed the accord that established a national unity government. Cognac glasses in hand, the new partners toasted the accomplishment with cries of "L 'chayim " (To life...
After heavy floods that killed at least 188 South Koreans two weeks ago and caused severe damage to homes and crops, North Korea offered rice, medicine, cloth and cement in humanitarian assistance. Last week, to the surprise of practically everybody, South Korea accepted the offer. If the deal goes through, it will be the first extension of aid of any kind between the two hostile regimes since the Korean War began...
Spartacists, backdropped by a cloth banner reading "Black workers are the revolutionary powerhouse," loudly advocated that troubles plaguing Blacks--high rents, low wages and the constant threat of being arrested for travelling without a passport--could be eliminated through a worker's revolution...
...plenty of spectacular diving competition at the Games. Since 1980, China has been sending powerful men's and women's diving teams, perhaps the best in the world, to international meets. They specialize in acrobatics and "ripped" entries -eerily splashless plunges that make a sound like ripping cloth, in which the hands and arms drill a hole in the water for the body to follow. At first the American women, traditionally the world's best, could not match these elegant entries. They learned soon enough, but the Chinese kept improving too. As the Olympic women...