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...some truth to that. But men have never needed excuses to commit rape in gangs. The Japanese in China, the Russians in Germany, the Pakistanis in Bangladesh. Read accounts of what some American soldiers did to Vietnamese village girls of 13 and 14 in places like My Lai, and it seems clear that the subject of gang rape goes a good deal deeper than modern man's humiliation...
...HAVE TO APPROACH a book on leadership by Richard Nixon with a healthy does of cynicism. It is absurd, if not pathetic that probably the most mortally decrepit U.S. President ever has judged himself fit to assess such 20th century leaders Churchill De Gaulle MacArthur or Chou En-Lai...
...tale continues in John Dean's second book Lost Honor, for Watergate buffs who haven't yet Lost Interest. From his New Jersey hideaway, Richard Nixon continues to roop royalties with Leaders, a collection of his recollections about such world himinaries as Churchill. De Gaulle, Khrushchev and Chou En-Lai. Other Presidential publications are Jimmy Carter's memoirs, Keeping Faith, and Nancy Reagan's To Love a Child, accounts of the First Lady's own official baby--the Foster Grandparent Program...
...offer them in person the sorts of reassurances they have been trying to convey through Private Citizens Nixon and Kissinger. The geopolitical imperatives that brought the two nations together a decade ago are now more compelling than ever. But the mutual confidence and respect that Nixon and Chou En-lai were able to establish have not proved to be transferable to their successors. For the strategic partnership between China and the U.S. to survive, there will have to be a restoration of some personal rapport between the principal partners themselves. -By Strobe Talbott
...modest, but on a massive scale." He believes the Chinese want the same thing. "When I first went to the People's Republic in 1972," he recalls, "the conversation was all geopolitics. Economic assistance hardly came up at all. Mao Tse-tung and Chou En-lai made clear that they weren't about to sell their ideology for a bowl of economic pottage. What we talked about was survival in the face of the common Soviet threat. On this last trip, by contrast, the present leaders wanted to talk about their econo my and what...