Word: interview
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Jimmy (as everyone called him) was in his own low, rambling house, making Cabinet choices to the accompaniment of comic gallops by the baffled world press up and down the narrow streets to interview job hopefuls, then on to the nearest motels in Americus (ten miles away) for sparse rest and food. The food came, famously, from the now legendary Faye's Bar-B-Q Villa-a good steak served in the Formica rooms of a "double-wide mobile home" parked in a mud lot behind a filling station near some rotting tourist cabins...
...visit also holds potentially grave risks. Moscow's Americanologists are geared up to scrutinize every public statement?every toast, every press conference comment, every offhand remark ?by Teng for evidence of an anti-Soviet thrust to his visit. In an interview with Time Inc. Editor in Chief Hedley Donovan four days before embarking on his U.S. journey, Teng was openly, explicitly anti-Soviet, going so far as to urge a U.S.China alliance against Moscow (see following story). Publication of the interview on the day Teng is to sit down for his first talk with President Carter could confirm...
...that the new U.S. relationship with China "is not directed against the interests of any other country," and that he would like "to welcome President Brezhnev to our country in the near future." U.S. officials are hoping that Teng, having aimed a heavy salvo at Moscow in his TIME interview, will hold his fire while on American soil. As one State Department observer put it: "Teng's too smart to abuse hospitality...
Even as his countrymen prepared to usher in the Year of the Goat, China's Vice Premier Teng Hsiao-p'ing was getting ready to leave for his historic visit to the U.S. Just four days before his departure, he took time out for a wide-ranging interview with Time Inc. Editor in Chief Hedley Donovan, who was accompanied by TIME'S Hong Kong bureau chief, Marsh Clark. The interview, initially scheduled for half an hour, stretched to 80 minutes in the Sinkiang Room of the Great Hall of the People on Peking's T'ien An Men Square...
...know whether you are aware of our interview in TIME magazine in which Soviet Party Chief Brezhnev said that he is tired of talking about the Chinese. I wonder if there could be a limited agreement that Brezhnev will not talk about China, and you will not talk about the Soviet Union...