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...wooing of Peking began, they exploded in choleric anger as the U.N. resolution confirmed their worst fears. Senator Barry Goldwater of Arizona urged the U.S. to withdraw from the U.N. and expel its headquarters to "some place like Moscow or Peking." California's Governor Ronald Reagan cabled Chiang Kai-shek that the U.N. has been "reduced to the level of a kangaroo court." Said Thomas S. Winter, editor of the rightist magazine Human Events, "Conservatives are furious. I think the Administration hoped it could save Taiwan, but if it was a choice of getting Red China in or sacrificing Taiwan...
...come, their separated brothers on the mainland will look all the more wistfully to Taiwan in consideration of what it has done for its people, and permitted to its people." The West, he added, "did not have the guts" to overthrow Mao's regime, and the dream that Chiang Kai-shek would reconquer the mainland was, alas, "a little counter-revolutionary vision." Turning to the U.N., he described Albania, sponsor of the successful anti-Taiwan resolution, as "a little, reclusive country composed primarily of rocks and serfs, with here and there a slave master, whose principal export is Maoism." Buckley...
...swart Foreign Minister Nesti Nase rasped that Chiang's government "does not represent anything." He demanded swift adoption of the so-called Albanian resolution, which prescribes the seating of the Peking regime and immediate expulsion of the Nationalists. Taipei's embattled Foreign Minister Chow Shu-kai replied heatedly that if Peking has its way, "the era of collective aggression is upon us." The Nationalists' future hangs on the fate of the U.S. proposal for dual representation of both Peking and Taipei in the U.N. The case for the U.S. plan, as Japan's cool, scholarly Kiichi...
...midst of a heated debate about West Germany's budget one afternoon last week, Bundestag President Kai-Uwe von Hassel suddenly clanged his hand bell and the packed parliament fell silent. A moment later, its members broke into thunderous applause, and deputies on both sides of the aisle rose in a standing ovation. Von Hassel had just announced that Chancellor Willy Brandt was the winner of the 1971 Nobel Peace Prize. Greatly moved, Brandt told the Bundestag that he would do everything "to make myself worthy of this honor...
Despite the fact that the Shah strictly followed the rules of protocol laid down at the 1815 Congress of Vienna, some guests were miffed. When Kai-Ewe von Hassel, president of West Germany's Bundestag, was sent to represent (Federal President Gustav Heinemann, protocol decreed that he be shifted to a hotel and his tent assigned to the higher-ranking Princess Bilgis of Afghanistan. Von Hassel was not happy...