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...year of the coolie who came in from the cold. Starting last spring, when the first Chinese-inspired fashions swept Paris, European and American designers have been having a collective field day redecorating workers' uniforms and baggy pants, overblouses and quilted jackets. The style might be called Mao a la mode. Now, with the fall collections, American couturiers have gone from paddy to palace, digging deep into the treasure chest of Imperial China. Result: high-collared mandarin robes, silk jacquard jackets, sable-lined evening coats of old damask and golden-scrolled pajamas, all done up in poesies of color...
They also share a common antagonism toward Kissinger's obvious reluctance to share foreign policy decision-making with Congress, most notably on the Cyprus issue. Contends Rosenthal: "No doubt dealing with Brademas, Sarbanes and myself is less exciting than dealing with Mao and Brezhnev, but he [Kissinger] must deal with us and with other members of Congress because we reflect the will of the American people." That could possibly be true, but it is precisely because the Cyprus situation has stirred relatively little public debate in the U.S. that a concentrated lobbying effort can have great impact...
...Mao: You are young. You watch out. You have many more years to go and many enemies to face...
That mysterious exchange of aphorisms took place in Peking last week, when visiting Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos paid the derigueur courtesy call on venerable Chairman Mao Tse-tung. Accompanied by his wife Imelda and teen-age daughters Irene and Imee, Marcos spent four days in China and ended the visit by signing a declaration by which the Philippines became the 100th nation to recognize Peking. At the same time, Manila withdrew its recognition of the Chinese Nationalist government on Taiwan...
...Marcos' first trip to the Middle Kingdom-Imelda had visited Peking last September-was as strange as the conversation with Mao. Marcos, long an ardent antiCommunist, has for years ruthlessly suppressed Communist rebels in the Philippines. Only a few years ago, he was being castigated in Peking as a reactionary lackey of American imperialism. For the Philippines, recognition of China was an inevitable coming to terms with one of Asia's dominant powers, following the final American exit from Indochina. China, for its part, skillfully turned the occasion into a showpiece for an assertive display of anti-Soviet...