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...Wednesday night it will all be over. Ronald Reagan will be packing to leave for Brussels to report to NATO allies, then will hurry on to Washington to address a joint session of Congress that will be televised to a waiting nation. Mikhail Gorbachev will be getting ready to head back to the halls of the Kremlin, where he will weigh his impressions of the American leader. Soviet officials, newly savvy about influencing public opinion, and American officials, veterans in the art, will be struggling to put the proper spin on what took place in the first encounter between their...
...concession to U.S. negotiators, Viet Nam agreed in principle last month to joint MIA recovery operations, scheduled to begin this week at the site of a 1972 B-52 crash near Hanoi. There is good reason for Viet Nam's newly cooperative mood. Its annual per-capita income is roughly $125, and the $2 billion a year it receives in assistance from Moscow is not likely to increase. Viet Nam is said to want the MIA problem solved as a first step toward restoring official relations with the U.S. and establishing economic ties. Washington insists that it will not consider...
...country's intellectuals, style queens, foodies and hucksters, however, China is the new black. Every other day, a new research partnership or joint venture is announced, or a delegation heads to Beijing or Shanghai. Chinese supermarkets, traditional medicine, tai chi and feng shui have hit the suburbs, and moviegoers are broadening their taste beyond Hong Kong's martial-arts kickfests. A Tianjin-born property billionaire whose projects have reshaped Sydney is inspired by Shanghai's buildings (fewer columns, more concrete, less steel). Australia has had such infatuations in the past. First it was Britain, then the U.S. and Japan...
...ship it out faster, the Chinese would have bought even more. Mining company Rio Tinto has been selling iron ore to China for three decades. It has vast interests in the Pilbara, including nine mines and three ports. Through its subsidiary Hamersley Iron, Rio Tinto has a joint venture with Chinese steel producers in two mines, Channar and Eastern Ranges. The Channar partnership (China's first foray into foreign mine investment) began in 1987. Major new port, mine and rail projects will increase the company's production capacity to 170 million tons by next year. "We are running flat...
Hyman also said that the Joint Committee on Inspections, a monitoring board made up of members of the Corporation and the Board of Overseers and led by Corporation Senior Fellow James R. Houghton ’58, had some reservations about the grant from the outset...