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...Force One cut through the cloud cover and roared down toward Peking's airport, though, the balmy Pacific interlude was unquestionably over. The Chinese afternoon was dark and unseasonably chilly 54° F). Still, Reagan bounded coatless out of the 707, looking cheery as ever. The 19-mile drive into Peking must have been a sobering, almost allegorical journey: the twelve-limo Chinese-American motorcade sped down Lasting Peace Road, yet on each side lay a desolate, homely landscape...
...treacherous terrain of the Panjshir Valley has served local rebels as both sanctuary and symbol. The determined Mujahedin guerrillas have been nurtured by grain from its verdant hills, water from its mountain streams and shelter within caves in the shadow of its snow-capped peaks. Above all, the 70-mile-long valley has been the hideout and headquarters of Ahmad Shah Massoud, the charismatic 30-year-old Mujahedin leader who has united more than 5,000 squabbling resistance fighters under his shrewd and well-organized leadership...
Peking's welcome began even before the President left Washington for the first leg of his 14-day, 20,000-mile journey last Thursday (he was to spend Easter weekend at his California ranch). After insisting initially that the presidential entourage, including the press, be limited to 200, Chinese officials graciously upped the number to 560. Reagan will also be allowed to fly aboard Air Force One within China and to take along his own limousine and helicopter, privileges that were not accorded Nixon or Ford...
...also given rise to a clutch of unprecedented problems. So many curious visitors want to witness the economic miracle of Shenzhen firsthand that the government has had to erect a metal fence, complete with patrol road and sweeping arc lights, along the length of the zone's 54-mile border. Workers in the cities, whose $40-a-month wage used to be twice as high as that of the average farmer, must now watch uneducated villagers take home $400 a month. Jealous, or "red-eyed," party cadres vent their resentment against prosperous peasants by resorting to extortion or exploitation...
...pneumatique, otherwise known as the pneu, an institution that dates back to the empire of Napoleon III. For those who did not spend some of their youth in Paris and therefore do not know about the pneu, it was a letter on gray paper that whizzed through a 269-mile network of pneumatic tubes and then was delivered by a mailman on a bicycle. Faster than an ordinary letter (it took about two hours) but cheaper ($1.80) than a telegram, the pneu provided a valuable service at the moveable feast of the Left Bank, where very few hotel rooms...