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...Soviet lists as identical as possible. They knew that even the slightest disparity would offend Peking and buttress Chinese suspicion that the U.S. and Russia are partners in a conspiracy to keep China economically and militarily weak. At present, Sino-American trade amounts to only about $3.5 million in indirect deals mainly for chemicals and diesel engines. Chinese trade officials in Hong Kong have told U.S. businessmen that they do not expect any significant increase in U.S.-China trade until the political problems, notably Taiwan, are solved...
Government statistics yield ample evidence of the extent to which the Lao economy is dependent on foreign assistance. Only 40 per cent of the Lao budget is raised locally-and seven eighths of this is through indirect taxes. The military and police get nearly 60 per cent of the budget. About two per cent goes to development...
Thomas also said that this decision was an "indirect" result of a recent letter to the CAB from Michael L. Ryan '72. Ryan is the new President of Harvard Student Agencies...
Sadat's proposals were well timed. In New York, the Big Four meetings on the Middle East involving the U.S., Soviet Union, France, and Britain, were getting nowhere. The indirect talks among Egypt, Jordan and Israel under the aegis of Swedish Diplomat Gunnar Jarring were similarly stalemated. Sadat's proposal seemed a way out of the impasse. Though the Israelis publicly voiced reservations, one high official described the plan as "the only remaining exit." Secretary of State Rogers, who apparently felt the same way about it, scheduled a seven-day Middle Eastern tour to explore the possibility of carrying...
...first Chinese Red Cross flood aid; last week it rolled out the red carpet for a sellout tour by the popular Communist Chinese Silver Star Cultural Troupe. With Rumania and other third-party countries acting as the middlemen, Malaysia's pragmatic new Premier Tun Abdul Razak has begun indirect negotiations with China, offering to open trade and diplomatic relations in return for Peking's promise not to support Malaysia's holdout guerrillas. He has already faced the wrenching decision forced by the "two Chinas" situation (TIME, Oct. 5): Malaysia is talking about closing down its consulate...