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...Reagan, to "strictly pursue a one-China policy. We expect these promises to be faithfully carried out in action." In private he told Reagan his government wants a "considerable" reduction in arms sales to Taipei. Deng mentioned Taiwan to Reagan in private, but gingerly, describing it as "a knot in our relationship that we have to untie...
Pierre Trudeau most often overlooked Canadians, shuttling off in pursuit of admirable foreign-affair goals and the position of the U.N. Secretary General. For this, he will go down in Canadian history as the politician who, while untying the colonial knot, more often played the absentee landlord. Move over, Perez de Cuellar...
Later, happening across a computer screen, the knot of inventors being guided by Examiner Curtin asked if she could summon up their names. Roughly 4.4 million patents have been issued, and they are slowly being fed, the latest ones first, into the Patent Office's new computers. So the inventors whose patents go back a few years, and these were the ones with Examiner Curtin, were not yet in the system. It seemed to hurt them not to get authentic Government computer proof of their achievements. "If I gave you the name of the product, could you bring...
After falling behind 2-1, Dinneen fought back to knot the score. "I picked up my tenacity in the fifth game," he said, and pulled out a narrow victory...
Dapper and perhaps bemused, the guest of honor stood quietly through the welcoming din. Before him on the White House lawn, a fife-and-drum corps stepped loudly and flawlessly through its paces. In the distance, a knot of pro-Taiwanese demonstrators chanted protests against his presence. Thus in noisy, if peculiarly democratic fashion did the U.S. capital greet Chinese Premier Zhao Ziyang. Zhao, the highest-ranking Peking official ever to visit the U.S.,* had come to shore up a wobbly relationship. Said Zhao at the White House ceremony: "I come as a friendly envoy of the Chinese people...