Word: generality
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...executed for China after decades of xenophobic isolation. It marks the first official visit to the U.S. by a top-level Chinese leader since the Communist takeover in 1949. Nearly five years ago, when he was China's Deputy Premier, Teng flew to New York to address the U.N. General Assembly, but he was not an official visitor; Washington and Peking did not have full diplomatic relations. This time Teng rates the complete ceremonial treatment. He is to spend at least five hours with President Carter during three sessions at the White House. He meets tout Washington in a dizzying...
...held around the burnished mahogany table in the Cabinet Room of the White House. Vice President Walter Mondale, Vance, Brzezinski and Ambassador-designate to China Leonard Woodcock were scheduled to join Carter. According to U.S. officials who have drafted an agenda, the first major subject was to be a general review of global issues. The talk is virtually certain to focus on China's obsession: Soviet activity around the world. Other likely topics include such crisis situations as Viet Nam's rout of the Chinese-supported regime in Cambodia, the Shah's departure from Iran, tensions in southern Africa...
...open letter, warning that the Soviets were "heading for superiority, not parity, in the military arena," ran a full page in the New York Times last week and was signed by 178 retired generals and admirals. Among them: Admiral Elmo R. Zumwalt Jr., former Chief of Naval Operations; General Albert C. Wedemeyer, China theater commander in World War II; Major General George J. Keegan Jr., former Air Force chief of intelligence. *The CIA estimates it at more like 11% to 15% of G.N.P. *A reference to Mao's widow, Chiang Ch'ing, and three other high officials who sought...
...since the General Strike of 1926 have so many British trade unionists been pulled off their jobs in quest of pay hikes. For the third straight week, a strike by 80,000 truck drivers slowed trade and industry to a near standstill. Locomotive drivers repeated crippling one-day work stoppages that forced hundreds of thousands of commuters into their cars and onto highways made treacherous by a blanket of snow. Still more troubles loomed as London's subway workers considered striking this week. Four public employees unions, whose 1.5 million members include nursery attendants, teachers, hospital workers and crematory...
Daniel Steiner '54, general counsel to the University, and Archie C. Epps III, dean of students, met with the SAC members to discuss their requests, initially formulated in an open letter last month to Graham T. Allison '62, dean of the Kennedy School of Government...