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...without arousing any Chinese protest. One reason: hard-liners are pressing pragmatists among Peking's leaders to show that they can be tough in dealing with the U.S. The Chinese also remember Reagan's many campaign pledges of loyalty to Taiwan. Vice President George Bush, a former envoy to China, may stop in Peking during a Far Eastern tour this week, but it seems unlikely that he will be able to talk the Chinese into a more reasonable attitude...
...early as the 17th century, European voyagers recorded that a Thai royal tour through the waters of the old imperial capital, Ayutthaya, involved as many as 450 sumptuous teak barges, elaborately carved and gilded, with prows in the shapes of ornate serpents, birds and deities. Wrote one French envoy who witnessed the spectacle: "The splendor of the decorations, the variety of costume, the crowds of richly dressed spectators, the noise of the oars, and the shouts of the rowers, added to the music of innumerable instruments, produce a whole which would be difficult to parallel elsewhere." But rising maintenance costs...
...crises in Central America. Nicaragua claimed that it was eager for talks with the U.S. The top U.S. diplomat in El Salvador proposed that the country's government should "consider options to end the massacre," which was interpreted to mean talking with the rebel leaders. Earlier, an American envoy had flown to Havana for talks with Cuban President Fidel Castro, suggesting to some that the two major Caribbean Basin antagonists might agree to work directly on easing tensions in the region. But beneath these surface signs of flexibility, there remained serious doubts within the Reagan Administration about what might...
...since Sadat's death hardly helped to quell anxieties as Israel prepared to relinquish the last part of the Sinai on April 25. Hints by Israel that it might attack P.L.O. strongholds in southern Lebanon were also deeply worrying. To urge restraint on all parties, Washington dispatched Special Envoy Philip Habib to the region once again...
Thomas Enders is a towering (6 ft. 8 in.) Connecticut Yankee on whom the fates smiled. Born to wealth, educated at Yale and Harvard, he hurtled up through the State Department ranks until, when selected as envoy to Canada at age 43, he was the youngest U.S. ambassador anywhere. Now 50, Enders is Assis tant man of State for Inter-American Affairs and the point man for U.S. pol icy in the Caribbean and Latin America. He is urbane but also aloof, even cold, and almost cynically pragmatic. His blend of tact and two-fistedness resembles the style...