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...issued, several news agencies, citing the usual "reliable sources," reported that Hua had been named both party Chairman and head of the key Military Affairs Commission. Newsmen stationed in Peking noted unusually hectic activity at government offices near T'ien An Men Square; U.S. diplomats believed that a high-level party meeting was in progress, presumably to discuss and confirm Hua's appointment...
...area of foreign policy. On the last leg of Schlesinger's trip, an interpreter made a possibly telling slip by announcing: "We welcome Dr. Kissinger." Startled for a moment, Schlesinger smiled and replied, "He isn't here." It soon became clear, however, that Schlesinger's high-level hosts knew their Washington Who's Who. In Peking, Defense Minister Yeh Chien-ying and Foreign Minister Ch'iao Kuan-hua expressed their scorn for the Secretary of State. They denounced Soviet-U.S. detente as "appeasement" caused by a "Munich mentality." Calling for greater U.S. vigilance...
...When you couple Nader's incompetence as an administrator with the importance of employees remaining in his favor, you have the formula for a poisoned atmosphere." One dramatic expression of that atmosphere was the mysterious, nighttime removal of a personal diary from the office of Ted Jacobs, a high-level Nader associate, who says he was then fired by Nader for "misconduct...
Even the use of the word "democracy" in the draft statement was cause for contention. As one high-level Italian Communist explained to TIME Correspondent Herman Nickel: "How could [Italian Party Chief] Enrico Berlinguer sign a statement on democracy that [Czechoslovak President] Gustav Husak could also sign?" The red-leather-bound final declaration, placed before each delegate at the opening of the two-day conference, affirmed the "complete independence" of each party "in accordance with the socio-economic conditions and specific national features prevailing in the country concerned...
While Bok and his staff are happy to broadcast an open-house image of consensus, they deny sharply that Bok is merely a high-level mediator who keeps the boat from rocking too much, who uses the skills he learned in his labor experience to keep his central administration running smoothly. After insisting that he does make unpopular decisions for which there is no compromise solution, Bok adds, "I don't think, on the other hand, that compromise should be a dirty word...