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...considerable swath. Nearly 400 guests came to an embassy bash last month to meet the ambassador and his petite wife Ho Li-liang, a severely handsome woman in a man-tailored, dark blue suit and glossy black pumps. Two weeks ago, 350 turned out for the embassy's lavish National Day reception...
President Nixon's announcement of his intention to go to Peking unleashed lavish press speculation on the changing foreign policies of America and China. Why did these two giants, communicating for so long at armed lengths, decide to talk out mutual problems...
...date on the Chinese calendar is more sacred than Oct. 1, when Peking celebrates the final triumph of Mao Tse-tung's army over the Nationalists in 1949. But last week, for the first time in 22 years, there was no lavish National Day banquet, no parade through Tienanmen Square, no ringing editorials, no pecking-order appearance by Chairman Mao and the Chinese leadership atop the massive Gate of Heavenly Peace. For the watching world, there was also no explanation-only occasional half-hearted denunciations by Radio Peking of what it mocked as "rumormongering by the capitalists and revisionists...
...return to normal operations. The Chinese Foreign Ministry subsequently announced that the usual National Day hoopla would be scrapped "for reasons of economy." That did not seem to apply to China's embassies and missions round the world; they celebrated the big day with unprecedentedly lavish parties, including a bash in Geneva that featured 500 guests and a ten-course dinner...
...Fellmeth, director of the project, insists that he was not deliberately trying to "go after" Governor Ronald Reagan, the report made a point of the fact that some of the owners it cited were heavy contributors to the Governor's campaign chest. These same corporations may also receive lavish tax benefits. The report was especially critical of such state projects as a mammoth scheme currently underway to transfer water from the northern part of the state to the dryer south...