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...convivial. There was Vice President George Bush, smiling affably as his host, Chinese Communist Party Vice Chairman Deng Xiaoping, raised a glass of mao-tai in a toast to Sino-American friendship. In fact, after two days of talks with China's top leadership, Bush had failed to mend a relationship between the two nations that has been deteriorating virtually from the day President Ronald Reagan took office. When Bush returned to Washington last week, he could only say that he was taking some unspecified "new ideas" back to the President, together with a Chinese warning that the problem...
...faculty should, however, discuss the issue, Clark said. Clark predicted that a division among faculty members would not be easy to mend. "You don't just address an issue like this and vote on a resolution," he said...
...supporting Argentina, the Soviets seem simply to be advancing their interests. The crisis offers an opportunity to drive a wedge between Argentina and the U.S., and that in turn could affect the course of events in Central America. Moreover, supporting Argentina may help Moscow mend fences with nations in the Third World, many of whom resented the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Most important of all, the Soviet Union needs Argentina's meat and grain exports to make up for a serious food shortage...
...months before the embassy takeover, the documents indicate, U.S. officials in Tehran made a good-faith effort to mend relations. Yet there were attempts at old-fashioned spying. The papers purport to show that the CIA attempted to recruit Abolhassan Banisadr, then an adviser to Khomeini and later President of Iran, to be an informer in the summer of 1979. A CIA agent posing as an American businessman approached Banisadr in Tehran and offered to hire him as a business consultant for $5,000 a month, but the attempt failed...
...parades like the one at which Sadat was killed. The lavish celebrations Sadat had planned to commemorate the return of the Sinai are also being scaled down. As Mubarak prepared for his first visit as President to the U.S. this week, he left behind a nation unmistakably on the mend from the trauma of Sadat's assassination...