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...mistrust of Moscow's international designs, but its leaders bridle when U.S. strategy seems to regard them primarily as a strategic foil to the Soviets. Indeed, last week Moscow announced that First Deputy Prime Minister Ivan Arkhipov will make an official trip to China in mid-May; he will be the highest-ranking Kremlin visitor since the early 1960s. Moreover, Peking is seeking to become the Middle Kingdom in modern geopolitical terms, a genuinely nonaligned state...
Such promises, however, do not satisfy all of Hong Kong's residents. In a paper presented during a trip to Peking in mid-May, twelve leading young professionals and businessmen insisted that "the suggested self-administration solution cannot achieve the avowed object of maintaining Hong Kong's prosperity and stability. There is no such precedent that we know of where a dependent territory of a socialist country has practiced capitalism in isolation and managed to retain its prosperity...
Further back were Brown, which finished a close second to the Crimson at the Eastern Sprints in mid-May, and finally Yale, the two-time defending national champs and recent victor over Harvard in the Harvard-Yale Regatta June...
Arafat's campaign to reassert his dominance over the P.L.O. was prompted by an unprecedented rebellion within the ranks of his Fatah organization, which has been his main power base ever since he helped found it in 1959. The mutiny, which at its peak in mid-May involved only a few hundred of the 10,000 to 15,000 P.L.O. fighters in Lebanon, apparently never posed a serious threat to Arafat's leadership. But it dramatized the weakened condition of the P.L.O. in the wake of its expulsion from Beirut last year by Israeli forces, particularly the organization...
...Heyman upset the canoe. I've had stock for ten years, and I'm not at all satisfied." After a chaotic, three-hour session that was interrupted by arguments over rules of order, Werner, fearful that he was losing to Heyman, postponed the deadline for voting to mid-May...