Word: friendships
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...trod a soggy red carpet, to be greeted by French Foreign Minister Claude Cheysson. It was not a night for ceremony. The Reagans sped off to the residence of U.S. Ambassador Evan Galbraith to recuperate from jet lag and prepare for the first serious task: cementing Reagan's friendship with French President François Mitterrand, his host at the Versailles summit...
...grounds that it did not explicitly demand an Argentine withdrawal within a fixed time limit. Reluctantly supporting the British position, Kirkpatrick also vetoed the resolution. But when her turn to speak came, she had conciliatory words for Argentina. Kirkpatrick expressed the hope that "cooperation will be restored and friendship mended," and pointedly referred to the Falkland Islands by their Argentine name, the Malvinas. Then came the surprise of the evening. "I am told that it is impossible for a government to change a vote once it is cast," Kirkpatrick said. "But I have been requested by my Government to record...
...agents of the Public Security Bureau seemed intent on terrorizing their victim, and they succeeded. It was 1 a.m. when they marched into Peking's sprawling Friendship Hotel, where many foreigners working in China live. The police told room clerks to awaken American Teacher Lisa Wichser, 29, and tell her that an urgent telegram had arrived for her. When the petite, sandy-haired and somewhat sleepy Wichser appeared to claim it, she was handcuffed and hustled without explanation into a police car. Technically, at least, the graduate student from Noblesville, Ind., had not been arrested. She was merely being...
Ironically, official Chinese proclamations regularly stress the need to build friendship with foreign peoples. Yet some Chinese who become friends with foreigners are not only intimidated by police but penalized at work. One young Shanghai laboratory technician was recently denied a promotion because, he was told, "you have violated the rules governing contact with foreigners." The technician had failed to report associating with a foreign friend to the lab's security department. For foreigners, too, the new restrictions have been noxious and unsettling. "You never know," says one diplomat, "when simply inviting a Chinese over to your house...
...John Paul's visit Britain's denominational divisions must be seen in a new light: "in the context of a common determination to make Christ's voice heard above the noise generated by a selfish and self-indulgent [British and Western] culture." He believes that the friendship and Christian joy exemplified by John Paul's visit could strengthen the prospects of religious conversion in a nation like Britain, where an anemic 11% of the populace worships on Sunday...