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...accounts the Chinese welcome his appointment. Bruce, nominally a Democrat, has served under every President since Harry Truman and thus enjoys the support of both U.S. political parties. He is the same age as Chou En-lai and only five years younger than Mao Tse-tung-a fact that runs against the American obsession with youth but fits in congenially with the Chinese respect for age and experience...
...appeared on trial in China as the "archcriminal of all U.S. prisoners." He was sentenced to life imprisonment. After many pleas, Mary Downey was permitted to visit her son five times. Now 75, she suffered a severe stroke earlier this month. President Nixon appealed directly to Premier Chou En lai, and Downey was released last week...
...China, Soviet Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin comes around to the White House more often for lunch, and Kissinger goes up 16th Street to the Russian embassy frequently. The coziness grows in direct proportion to the increasing tension between Russia and China. Each meeting with China's Premier Chou En-lai is better than the last, the talk easier, and the banquets more bountiful. Kissinger is up a few pounds...
...Quantro." (Like that old familiar red wine, Bojolay.) Worse still, they counsel the reader--and also, it seems, the hapless bartender at Charlie's--on "Mai Tai's." "In point of fact," confide the knowing Dake and Decherd, "it is the drink which President Nixon shared with Chou En-Lai in Peking last February." They should have added that Pat Nixon wore a hula skirt while Mrs. Mao Tse-tung dished out poi at the Peking People's Luau...
Lest skeptics complain that such analyses are the product of overactive imaginations, Sinologists relate a revealing vignette from President Nixon's visit to Peking. After the banquet in the Great Hall of the People, Premier Chou En-lai went off to a corner. There he was shown the People's Daily front-page layout of pictures of the Nixon trip. That historic issue went to press only after Chou-the world's most famous part-time editor-approved...