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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most intriguing welcoming committee had been pushed by police 300 yards back across Chang An Avenue to the perimeter, beyond Reagan's view: thousands of ordinary Chinese, most of them young, who had come out on their own to glimpse the visiting American. It was the largest such spontaneous gathering for a foreign visitor that observers could recall...
...state dinner for 600 Chinese and American guests was one of the largest ever hosted outside the U.S. It was also the first major Western banquet not held in an embassy or a government hall. During his 1975 state visit, for example President Gerald Ford gave a Chinese banquet in Peking's Great Hall of the People. The Reagans instead chose the newly completed Great Wall Hotel. A 1,007-room glass-and-steel high-rise jointly built by Chinese and American developers, the hotel is a symbol of China's growing Western ties and its quest...
...President one day may be a cliché, but until Jackson came along it was only a white cliché. More immediately, Jackson has inspired black adults to run for local office. They were winning on the local level already, especially in cities (four of the six largest have black mayors), but Jackson for the first time has demonstrated black political power on the national level...
...joint venture with Toyota to produce small cars in California. Last week the Japanese gained a major stake in another huge U.S. industry: steel. Pittsburgh's National Intergroup agreed to sell a 50% interest in its National Steel subsidiary to Nippon Kokan, Japan's second-largest steelmaker, for $292 million...
...simply ignore the procedures we just passed," said Vincent T. Chang '84, adding. "How can we justify the largest grant ever in council history without adequate review...