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Dong Dang is only one of many villages on both sides of the border that have felt the effects of the most serious clashes between China and Viet Nam. Ever since 1979, when hundreds of thousands of Chinese troops rushed across the frontier, low-level skirmishes between the Communist adversaries have been a springtime ritual. Although wildly conflicting reports from Hanoi and Peking have obscured the real extent of this year's fighting, the sheer volume of the competing claims and counterclaims appears to confirm that the situation has seriously deteriorated. Only last week, the Vietnamese claimed they...
Gray, who was born in Hastings, Neb., is a good deal more than just a small-town boy grown big. He is a Harvard Business School graduate who since going to Washington as a low-level official in the Eisenhower Administration has had the knack for cultivating the powerful of both parties. He left the public relations firm of Hill & Knowlton Inc. in 1981 to build a company that by 1983 was earning $11 million a year. He owns 75% of Gray & Co.'s stock, and enjoyed a salary last year...
...China's attempts to begin talking to South Korea. Says a State Department aide: "They know a new Korean war would be a major disaster for them and for us." Most important, the U.S. and China remain equally suspicious of the Soviet Union. Although Peking and Moscow resumed low-level talks last year, the Chinese remain opposed to the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan, Soviet support for Viet Nam, and the presence of 52 Soviet divisions on China's northern border. Reagan will have three televised opportunities to get his message across to the Chinese public: an interview with Chinese journalists...
...problem stems from a law Congress passed in 1980 under pressure from the states that currently receive low-level waste--South Carolina, Nevada, and Washington. The law allows states that join a regional waste disposal compact to bar non-member states from storing waste within their borders...
Lobbyists place much of the blame for the failure on the Question Three referendum passed in 1982. The law requires any prospective site for low-level waste disposal to be approved by a referendum of Massachusetts citizens in the next state-wide election...