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...about to be admitted. The U.S., which had blocked Peking's entry for more than two decades, was now conceding the Communists' claim to a seat, but was also engaged in an epic struggle to save a place in the General Assembly for the embattled, Taiwan-based Nationalist regime of Mao's old enemy, Chiang Kaishek. But with the special antimagic that the U.N. seems to possess in abundance, the buildup to the climax dissolved into hours of stiff speechifying, interspersed with moments of bizarre and totally unrelated melodrama...
...considering even the most minor relaxations, Prime Minister John Vorster must still take into account his Nationalist Party's dwindling but vocal right wing, known as the verkramptes (cramped ones). Vorster, 55, a cautious pragmatist during his five years in office, has already adopted a successful "outward-looking" foreign policy of providing trade and aid to black African states. Last month he declared: "Your government is now entering an era of the most practical politics South Africa has ever known. The time of speeches, blueprints and fancy flights has gone." The statement could have meant anything, but aides insisted...
...American defeat (in the U.N. voting) is what we deserve after 20 years of unrealism." John K. Fairbank, Higginson Professor of History, said yesterday. "It is unreal after 20 years to assume that Nationalist China represents the mainland Chinese...
Benjamin I. Sehwartz '38, professor of History and Government, said he had "some worries" about the removal of Nationalist China, but believed "the benefit of Peking in the U.N. outweighs the expulsion of Taipei...
Public Blackmail. The Nationalist Chinese have been lobbying vigorously. In a recent two-month blitz, Taipei's Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs H.K. Yang visited no fewer than 22 African capitals, all of which happened to be beneficiaries of Nationalist assistance programs; 19 of the African delegations, officials claim, are in Taipei...