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Signs of the American trade connection are in many places. In Shanghai, ships of the American President Line unload bales of American raw cotton. In the southwestern province of Sichuan, preparations are under way for an oil drill bit plant to be built under a $50 million contract with the...
More to the point, why are embassies and diplomats such popular terrorist targets? One root cause, many Western diplomats believe, is that a number of postcolonial, Third World countries are far less inclined than tradition-minded Western states to abide by the old rules of discourse among nations. The fact...
The picture of the archbishop mixing his cocktails [Feb. 4] reminds me of my Kabul days when, soon after Japan entered the war, the wine stocks of our Japanese legation became dangerously low. Yet at the Italian legation wine still flowed. I asked his Italian excellency if he had a...
ALTHOUGH THE U.S. must shun direct intervention in Iranian politics, it should strongly condemn one of the first acts of that government. In his announcement Monday, Khomeini caused alarm by naming Israel the next target for the Islamic revolution. While his statement, and the seizure of the Israeli legation buildings...
Throughout his pontificate a procession of world leaders visited the Vatican, including some key figures from Communist countries: Yugoslavia's President Josip Broz Tito, Rumania's President Nicolai Ceauşescu, Soviet President Nikolai Podgorny and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko. Of all the Pope's many...