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Peking last week celebrated the advent of Sino-American relations with soda pop, champagne toasts, demands for free speech and freer sex, and a binge of disco dancing-most of which, as the Chinese have been quick to learn, goes better with Coke. Thanks to the time difference between the capitals of the two nations, Peking got a 13-hour head start on normalization over Washington. Vice Premier Teng Hsiao-p'ing launched the New Year's Day occasion with a solemn call for world peace. As fireworks exploded outside the U.S. liaison office in Peking, Teng raised...
...catch-all' approach--with recourse to all-American rhetoric instead of specialist knowledge (or even the atlas and history book) can only hinder, perhaps fatally, those campaigning for freer societies in the East. Avoiding the simplicity of error is the best monument to the victims, past, present and future, of the Gulag Archipelago...
Aware of the peril, Robert Strauss last month huddled in Washington with congressional leaders in an effort to get an interim bill that would delay the duties. To his dismay, he found the mood on Capitol Hill running so strong against freer trade that he feared the bill would be either killed or encrusted with various protectionist amendments. He reported this to the Europeans and received the rocket from Haferkamp...
What lamentable arrogance and condescension are displayed by Andrew Greeley in his item on celibacy [July 10]. Catholic priests may be freer to serve their people than married Protestant ministers, but that doesn't necessarily mean that they make themselves more available to their people. Having had dealings with both married Protestant ministers and Catholic priests, I would rather seek help from the former than the latter...
...company, which gets 3% to 4% of its $400 million operating budget from the government, has asked for an additional $15 million subsidy. But Prime Minister Menachem Begin, committed to freer enterprise, so far has been no more forthcoming with El Al than he has been with Anwar Sadat. Says Gad Yaacobi, chairman of the Knesset Economic Committee: "The government will be very reluctant to give El Al this subsidy until it proves it will make every effort to become more efficient...