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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Taiwan also dominated Teng's talks in another forum: Capitol Hill. He lunched with 85 Senators, drank tea with 80 Congressmen and chatted privately with Senate Majority Leader Robert Byrd and House leaders. The Vice Premier repeatedly told his congressional hosts that Peking will not use force against Taiwan, unless it has to. "If they refuse to negotiate," he asked House Speaker Tip O'Neill, "what are we to do?" But Teng promised the Senators and Congressmen that after reunification, Taiwan can retain its capitalistic economy and even its armed forces...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Teng's Triumphant Tour | 2/12/1979 | See Source »

...Garbage pits never lie and a preliminary analysis of this garbage pit shows that Harvard students never change; they smoked and drank 200 years ago as they still do today," Davis added...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MBTA to Fund Peabody Study Of Artifacts Unearthed in Yard | 2/2/1979 | See Source »

...July, Robin visited Little Bruce at the prison farm, along with Bruce Sr. and James Sampson. Afterward, Robin went to a motel with the two men and drank most of a bottle of whisky. She later tearfully told Little Bruce that she did not clearly remember what had happened but she had passed out and awakened in the morning stripped of her clothes. Angry, Little Bruce decided to get even. On Aug. 9, he told a federal grand jury in Philadelphia about the theft ring allegedly headed by his father...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: It Was Pennsylvania Gothic | 1/15/1979 | See Source »

...week belonged to Teng. For 40 minutes, the diminutive Chinese leader sat perched on a blue silk sofa in Woodcock's living room as guests were served an appropriate, but unsettling, combination of Coca-Cola, Chinese orange soda pop, apple pie and egg rolls. Teng chain-smoked and drank local beer as he listened to Woodcock's plea for more living and working space for U.S. diplomats when the liaison office becomes a full-fledged embassy on March...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Tying the Sino-American Knot | 1/15/1979 | See Source »

...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 and his guests, at which point people clapped, drank and talked. The murmuring ceased as Vice President Mondale began to speak...

Author: By Anna Simons, | Title: A New China For the New Year | 1/5/1979 | See Source »

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