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...when he takes up his duties in New York. In all, five of Peking's delegates have held posts outside China (in Moscow, London, Cairo, New Delhi and Ghana). Some are veterans of the swings that Chou frequently made through the Third World. The only woman delegate, Wang Hai-yung, 34, has never been outside the Middle Kingdom. But then, Miss Wang has special qualifications: she speaks English, she has been deputy chief of the Foreign Ministry's protocol department and she is reputed to be the niece of none other than Chairman Mao Tse-tung...
...names of the new favorites are in themselves enough to give any true wine lover the pip: Zapple and Boone's Farm (both apple wines), Bali Hai and Key Largo (orange, papaya and other fruit extracts), Spañada (grape), three different blends that are jointly named I Love You ("I" tastes like lemon-lime, "Love" is fruity and "You" has a cola flavor), Ripple (grape wine and tropical fruits) and Annie Greensprings (a grape rosé). The biggest sellers seem to be Boone's Farm, Bali Hai, Spañada and Ripple: exact figures are being withheld...
...Thanh Tay, 7,000 refugees are crowded into an area hardly big enough for a dozen water buffalo. Thanh Tay is known as a "temporary resettlement camp," but it has been in use since 1965, when the fishing village of Cam Hai was overrun by the Viet Cong. Its people now live in four long, tin-roofed sheds, in cubicles divided off like horse stalls; six to ten people occupy each stall. Ironically, peace has already returned to their former village, but their houses are occupied by the 2nd Korean Brigade, so the refugees will not be able...
Next Prime Minister. The tales of brutality are seemingly endless. A young man whose house was being searched begged the soldiers to do anything, but to leave his 17-year-old sister alone; they spared him so he could watch them murder her with a bayonet. Colonel Abudl Hai, a Bengali physician attached to the East Bengal Regiment, was allowed to make a last phone call to his family; an hour later his body was delivered to his home. An old man who decided that Friday prayers were more important than the curfew was shot to death as he walked...
...Saigon, however, Vice Premier Ky addressed a group of South Vietnamese pilots and suggested that ARVN might "have to cross to the other side of the Ben Hai River" and hit the North Vietnamese on their own ground. Ky's offhanded talk, one Washington official shrugged, "keeps the enemy worried, and that's what we want...