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...America "for quite some time." Says Lu: "My feeling is that he won't go back to China until Li Peng is no longer in power. He may want to avoid retaliation." Xu's old associates in Beijing may be cursing him, but Lu says the former envoy is "happy and laughing...
...model for an ally, President Daniel arap Moi draws the line at multiparty democracy. Not even the implicit threat of a cutback in aid to countries that fail to practice pluralistic politics, delivered by U.S. Ambassador Smith Hempstone earlier this month, has budged him. "Kenya," Moi replied to the envoy's comments, "does not require any guidance from outsiders on how to run its affairs...
Washington and Tokyo commended the action and moved closer to resuming normal ties. Japan, the largest provider of economic assistance to China, announced that it was sending an envoy to Beijing to discuss resuming negotiations on pending loans. In the U.S., President Bush called China's decision "a very sound step," and Washington immediately softened its blanket opposition to World Bank loans to China...
...guerrillas said their attacks preventedPremier Hun Sen from meeting in Phnom Penh withAustralian Deputy Foreign Secretary MichaelCostello for talks on a peace plan. They said HunSen went from Ho Chi Minh City to Cambodia'seastern Svay Rieng province, bordering Vietnam, tomeet the envoy...
...Chinese capital; their first visit, in July, came to light only last week. Beijing has yet to reciprocate with any significant concession, and last week expressed "utmost shock and strong condemnation" of the Panama invasion. But the U.S. moves furthered a bold and individual policy. Bush, who was once envoy to China, believes the strategic relationship with the Middle Kingdom to be all important and is willing to nurture it at whatever cost in criticism...