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...February of this year Secretary of State George Shultz, in Peking, found that while the Chinese were posturing publicly about Taiwan, in private they were expending most of their steam over a U.S. promise, first proffered by Haig, to reclassify China's trade status. In May Commerce Secretary Malcolm Baldrige informed the Chinese that Reagan had in fact reclassified China, putting it in the category of a "friendly country with which the U.S. is not allied...
...considered an indication that a nation is on the skids. For nearly three years the U.S. dollar has been riding high, perhaps too high and for too long. Now the almighty dollar's very robustness is creating alarm both in the U.S. and abroad. Says Commerce Secretary Malcolm Baldrige: "As the ancient Greeks said, 'An individual's faults are virtues carried to excess.' When the dollar is excessively strong, it hurts our trade and that hurts jobs in the U.S. Too much of a good thing...
...rally was sponsored by Students for Mel King, a coalition of Boston-area students which was formed at "Malcolm X Weekend" held at Harvard last winter. The group includes members of the Seymour Society, a Harvard-based Black Christian fellowship that coordinated minority voter registration drives this past summer...
...Colo., were former President Gerald Ford, 70, an Institute Fellow; Helmut Schmidt, 64, Chancellor of West Germany from 1974 to 1982; Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, 57, President of France from 1974 to 1981; James Callaghan, 71, Prime Minister of Great Britain from 1976 to 1979; and Malcolm Fraser, 53, who was defeated as Prime Minister of Australia in March after eight years in office. During their three-day stay at the scenic mountain resort, the five former leaders reminisced, and criticized the policies of their successors. "What we have here," said a less than serious Schmidt...
...musician, authentic instruments now attract performers of international caliber: Dutch Violinist Jaap Schroder, who collaborated with Hogwood on the Mozart symphony series, the English Concert's Pinnock, a top-notch harpsichordist whose reading of Bach's Goldberg Variations is perhaps the most convincing on discs; American Pianist Malcolm Bilson, one of the leading exponents of classical keyboard music, which he plays on the fortepiano, a predecessor of the modern instrument. "Everybody understands that there must be different sopranos for Mozart and Wagner," says Bilson, explaining the desirability of matching instrument to composer. "It has nothing to do with...