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...task of covering Teng's visit was made difficult by the size of the press entourage: 1,200 or so Western reporters, cameramen and soundmen, as well as 32 Chinese journalists, the largest press delegation ever to accompany a foreign official in the U.S. Says Washington Correspondent Johanna McGeary, who reported on Teng's White House visits: "It was one of the most suffocatingly covered events to come to Jimmy Carter's Washington. Reporting this story required nothing so much as a sharp pair of elbows, a knack for getting into the right press pools...
...exchange for American consulates in Canton and Shanghai. The U.S. also promised to sell China on credit a communications satellite system that will cost about $500 million, and a 50-billion electron-volt accelerator, used in nuclear research. This would cost up to $200 million and would be the largest such installation in China, but only one-eighth the energy of one now operating at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Ill. Finally, the two countries formally agreed to exchanges of scholars, journalists and cultural groups. To head off any worries in Moscow about the agreements, the Administration emphasized that...
Teng took his show on the road early Thursday morning. He was accompanied by U.S. Trade Negotiator Robert Strauss, Commerce Secretary Juanita Kreps and two planeloads of lesser officials, reporters and cameramen-a total of 290, one of the largest entourages ever to follow a foreign dignitary on a tour of the U.S. (notably absent: any Soviet press representative...
...NATION'S LARGEST electric power utility and leading investor in strip-mined coal and nuclear power is encouraging its customers to switch from dependence on the mammoth power plants to an updated model of the wood-burning stove or to futuristic solar heating systems. It is helping families in one of th Unites States's poorest regions to buy alternative sources of home energy with low-interest loans payable over decades. Doesn't sound like something your local Exxon or Con Ed would do, does...
...story illustrates the tendency of the PBH Association (PBHA), the building's principle tenant, to support progressive social and political outfits. The difference between the House itself and the Association has led to a good deal of confusion. PBHA, Harvard's largest undergraduate organization, is a social action group accommodating a wide variety of volunteer placements...