Word: deng
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Prospects for the agreement first glimmered at a Houston barbecue four years ago. Deng Xiaoping, Communist Party Vice Chairman of the People's Republic of China, who was making a brief U.S. tour, was introduced to Armand Hammer, 85, chairman of Occidental Petroleum. Brushing aside the interpreter, Deng said, "No introduction is necessary. We know Dr. Hammer as the American who helped Lenin. Why don't you come .to China and help us as well?" Hammer, whose close trade ties with the Soviet Union stretch back for more than half a century, said that he would be happy...
...city would be retained. In the course of the informal talks, China has even indicated that Hong Kong's Royal Jockey Club could continue its horse races, although "Royal" would of course have to be dropped from the club's title in a socialist society. Chinese Leader Deng Xiaoping promised last month that "no official will be sent from Peking to supervise or administer Hong Kong...
...night last July slipped out of a California hotel during a tennis tour and went into hiding at a friend's home. But to Peking the issue was a critical test of Chinese-American relations. Worried that Washington might grant Hu Na political asylum, ViceChairman Deng Xiaoping urged the U.S. last August to consider "the greater interests of the relations between the two countries...
...only be that wandering curator of Irish wit and Boston wisdom, Tip O'Neill, 70. The Speaker of the House has been spending his Easter recess in China with a contingent of 13 Congressmen on an itinerary that last week included visits in Peking with both Vice Chairman Deng Xiaoping, 78, and Premier Zhao Ziyang, 64. After venturing that there had been "a tremendous meeting of minds," O'Neill let slip at a press conference with Western journalists that "we had no knowledge before we came as to the strong position of the Chinese government with regard...
...happy outcome in Wang's case was meant to reassure China's burgeoning ranks of entrepreneurs that a certain measure of capitalism is acceptable. But since many Chinese have suffered in the past because of unpredictable flip-flops in party policy, Deng Xiaoping has yet to convince everyone that this time the reforms are more than ephemeral. -By Marguerite Johnson. Reported by David Aikman and Jimi Florcruz/Peking