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Among his other talents, China's Vice Premier Teng Hsiao-p'ing is demonstrating an adeptness in the care and feeding of American newsmen. As part of its celebration of the New Year's Day normalization of relations with Washington, the Peking regime invited 27 U.S. reporters to the Middle Kingdom for a two-week tour. A high point was meeting with Teng in the Great Hall of the People, the first such session for American newsmen with a leader of the People's Republic. Teng fielded questions with ease and even showed a touch...
...work, invaded a long-closed public park to get shots of young people courting, and barged into a beauty parlor to record post-Mao women getting their hair done; an ABC crew solemnly documented the progress of a plump Peking duck from barnyard to dinner plate. For the newsmen, reported TIME Hong Kong Bureau Chief Marsh Clark, who joined the tour, the trip was "like sitting down to a huge Chinese banquet. News was everywhere...
With that, the odds for a Carter-Brezhnev summit this month dropped to zero. Said the President during a Christmas-morning chat with newsmen in Plains, Ga.: "We have an excellent chance of a fairly early meeting between myself and President Brezhnev. My guess is, though, that it will not be in January." Carter then added: "I think we will have the SALT agreement. It just takes time...
...brief, astonishing display of what that liberty might produce, posters that attacked Mao, praised Teng and alluded favorably to the economic achievements of Taiwan went up at the end of November Peking's "democracy wall." In remarkably open conversations with foreign newsmen, citizens of the capital asked searching questions about nonsocialist political systems, evincing particular interest in that of the U.S. Finally, a wall poster addressed to Jimmy Carter appeared on democracy wall. "We should like to ask you to pay attention to the state of human rights in China," it said. "The Chinese people do not want to repeat...
...extend his SALT talks with the Soviets in Geneva. In any case, the White House stressed that the Brussels discussions would deal only with "procedures" for restarting the talks. On that, at least, both Washington and Cairo agreed with Menachem Begin; in Jerusalem, the Israeli Premier bluntly told newsmen that Dayan would be limited to discussing only "how, when and where" negotiations might be resumed...