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...chain of meetings. No further direct contacts between the two powers took place until U.S. Ambassador to Poland Walter Stoessel, a veteran Foreign Service officer, chatted with a Chinese diplomat at a Warsaw reception six weeks ago. Later, he talked for an hour with Chargé d'Affaires Lei Yang at the Chinese embassy...
Chinese telephoned last week to say that Lei Yang wanted to return the call. The following day he arrived at the U.S. embassy in a Chinese Hung Chi (Red Flag) limousine whose taillights are shaped like Chinese lanterns. As they sipped tea, the diplomats agreed to reopen the formal talks next week at the Chinese embassy. Thereafter, the talks will alternate between the U.S. and Chinese embassies...
After a long period of self-imposed isolation, Peking has apparently decided to recommence at least a measure of diplomatic contact with the West. As a result of the fashion-show conversations, Stoessel was invited to the Chinese embassy for a meeting with Chargé d'Affaires Lei Yang. The two men talked and sipped tea for more than an hour. Though the content of their discussion remains secret, President Nixon's top foreign policy advisers are convinced that Peking may well be on the verge of resuming formal talks with...
...INSIDE front cover of a glossy brochure describing Miramar Naval Air Station, there is a picture of one of the many military home-comings Miramar hosts every month. Five smiling and lei-draped young men--"MIG-killers returning from Vietnam," the brochure says--stride away from their parked fighter planes and towards the kind of reward that Miramar, with its bowling alleys and movie theaters, offers those who have earned a hero's welcome...
...view that man is in a dismal rut. Modern existence, precarious, chaotic and murderous as it is, is a vast improvement over the ignorance, superstition, violence and disease of earlier periods. They ask: Are we ready to scuttle the technology that has spread food, home ownership, comfort, education and lei sure beyond any precedent? Would we rather have lived under the laws of the Athenian Republic or the Roman Empire than under constitutions that give us habeas corpus, trial by jury, religious and intellectual freedom and the emancipation of women...