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...Europe. "I would never have believed I'd stay so long," she says, "but everyone here has been so nice." I'm luckier: on the fourth day, I get a lift west out of Butler (though other rides were offered to Boston, Ottawa, Wilmington and Pittsburgh...
...deserted airfield on the outskirts of Peking. They were met by Marshal Yeh Chien-ying, a high-ranking Politburo member and two Foreign Office officials. Also on hand was Huang Hua, one of Peking's top experts on U.S. affairs, whose move to Canada as Ambassador to Ottawa had been delayed because of the Kissinger trip. The group drove to a handsome villa on a small lake outside Peking and sat down to a sumptuous Chinese lunch. While the rest of the U.S. delegation, adjusting to their environment, ate with chopsticks, Kissinger stuck to knife and fork...
Thus it was natural that when Peking began dismantling the wall of isolation erected during the Cultural Revolution, Huang Hua (Yellow Flower) was named to head one of China's most sensitive foreign posts, the new embassy in Canada. When Huang, 58, arrives in Ottawa some time in the next few weeks, he will become the Communist government's first ambassador in North America...
Accompanied by a Chinese cook and his wife, a diplomat who has served in the Foreign Ministry, Huang and his staff of 14 will work from the top floor of Ottawa's posh Juliana Apartments. From there, he will have a fine view of the Canadian Parliament, the Ottawa River and the Gatineau Hills. But the view that is likely to interest him most will be the one he gets-from the press, TV and assorted visitors...
Exiled from TV screens in the U.S., cigarette advertising now faces the ultimate prohibition in Canada. Last week the government in Ottawa introduced a bill that would end all cigarette ads in that country beginning next Jan. 1. The bill is certain to pass...