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Marshall Green, 56, Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs. The State Department's foremost Asia expert, Green would have been named Ambassador to Japan -a post with which he would like to cap his career-if his expertise had not been so badly needed for the Peking summit. He has a distinguished record of service in Japan, Korea and Hong Kong, where he headed the China-watching Consulate General, and in 1963 drafted a position paper for President Kennedy that recommended rapprochement with China...
BEGUN IN 1961, the dig completed its twelfth and final season last year. The scope of its archeological focus was remarkable. Every season, under the tireless direction of Martin Biddle, who is widely acknowledged as Britain's foremost archeologist and highly esteemed on the Continent as well, the project examined four or five sites in which a variety of structural features dating from up to five distinct periods of settlement were stratified. The large number of sites required an annual average labor force of 200 volunteers and trained supervisors, an unusually large number...
...head of J.D.L., New York Attorney Bertram Zweibon, denied that there had ever been a J.D.L. plan to bomb the Hurok and Columbia offices, both of which have booked Russian talent for the U.S. Hurok, 83, has long been an object of the league's enmity. As the foremost importer of Russian talent, he introduced the Bolshoi Ballet, the Moiseyev dancers and Pianist Vladimir Ashkenazy, among others, to American audiences. He signed Ashkenazy for a concert in Carnegie Hall last week, and the league called out its storm troopers to picket the performance. Hurok learned of the planned demonstration...
...most Americans, the difficulty of selling oranges, tobacco or computers abroad might not seem to rank among the foremost concerns of foreign policy. Yet just such trade problems dominated the nation's dealings with important allies last week. In Washington, William Eberle, President Nixon's special representative for trade, pressed Ambassador Nobuhiko Ushiba for an agreement to lower Japanese tariffs, taxes or quotas on cars, computers, fruit and other U.S. goods. Then the abrasive-mannered Eberle jetted to Brussels to demand that Common Market officials let in more American citrus, tobacco and grain. He got some moral support...
...five and six, who were asked to approve or disapprove every line of the story as it went along. The children, Piaget reports, were "keenly interested" and "sometimes even laughed a lot." Perhaps How the Mouse etc. loses in translation. In English, anyway, it simply suggests what Piaget-the foremost exponent of adjusting the process of learning to the individual-should have known: individuals can write books; committees...