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...State Department to quiet internal dissent about foreign policy. Secretary of Defense Harold Brown worried out loud on the Hill that the U.S. had no way to counter such surrogate Soviet forces as the Cubans in Africa. Chagrin hit the State Department when Chinese Vice Premier Teng Hsiao-p'ing, after his exuberant sojourn in the U.S., stopped in Tokyo on his way home and told the Japanese that America has shown indecision and "lacks direction" in handling the Iran crisis. Secretary of Energy James Schlesinger declared that the crisis could affect our oil supplies more severely than...
...knows how this American-Chinese venture will end." So remarked the Soviet press agency Tass last week in the wake of Chinese Vice Premier Teng Hsiao-p'ing's nine-day whirlwind tour of the U.S. The Tass observation was certainly valid. The Chinese leader's candor and expansive personality had charmed the American public, and most of the visit's achievements were on that psychological level. But few concrete answers emerged to some of the tough questions raised by Jimmy Carter's policy of normalizing relations with Peking...
Just one day after China's Vice Premier Teng Hsiao-p'ing ended his visit to the U.S., another Asian leader arrived at the White House last week to warn Jimmy Carter that an expansionist, Soviet-backed Viet Nam threatens peace and stability in Southeast Asia. The new visitor was Premier Kriangsak Chomanan of Thai land, whose country has good reason to feel beleaguered...
...feel cheated that the Crimson did not give our conference equal coverage with that given to the Student Assembly meeting of last Thursday night because our resolutions were very similar and, more importantly, our effect as a student organization is just as profound. Brian P. McAndrews
...Thomas P. Bernstein '59, visiting associate professor of Government: It clearly played a significant role. I think the Chinese--and this was partly precipitated on our side--are asking for American military help. They do want us to deter what they see as the rising Soviet threat. In that sense, they expect us to do our part as the other superpower. China really is not in the same league militarily as either the Soviet Union or the U.S., and their latching on to us is really a reflection of that...