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...gestation period for pandas is about five months, and it will take almost 4½ months for the first signs of pregnancy to appear-a swelling of Ling-Ling's breasts as she gets ready to nurse. Thus far only the Chinese have successfully bred a panda by artificial means. But such human intervention is becoming increasingly prudent. In the past five years, earthquakes and the natural disappearance of their major food, the arrow bamboo, have killed at least a tenth of China's giant pandas. Today only about 1,000 remain in the wild...
...Chinese border areas. Now some people in the world are afraid of offending them, even if they do something terrible. These people wouldn't dare take action against them." So said China's Vice Premier Teng Hsiao-p'ing last week, puffing on a Panda cigarette as he aimed an unmistakable rebuke at what Peking considers the jelly-bellied Western response to adventurism by the Soviets and their clients. Teng also gave the fullest explanation yet of the motives behind China's two-week-old "punitive" invasion of its southern neighbor, Viet Nam. In an effort...
...serious business of the summit began at 11 a.m., when Carter ushered Teng to his seat at the highly polished mahogany table in the Cabinet Room. "May I smoke?" asked the Vice Premier, pulling out a pack of Chinese-made Panda filter-tip cigarettes. Soon the air was thick with smoke. And soon the two leaders discovered that they liked dealing with each other. There was no posturing and no haggling during the three face-to-face sessions. At one point, Michel Oksenberg, the National Security Council's China specialist, slid a scribbled note across the table to Presidential...
Teng was clad in his usual dark gray Mao suit with black shoes and light gray socks. Puffing incessantly on Chinese-made Panda filter cigarettes, he spoke animatedly, gesticulating with his right hand and at times banging his hands together sharply to stress a point...
Shanghai boasts China's best department store. Called Number One, the stark, cavernous but well-stocked emporium attracts 100,000 shoppers a day. There are always eager crowds, but no lines, around the toy counter, which offers such items as a huge stuffed panda for $47, a solidly built dump truck for about $4.75, and a battery-powered submachine gun for $6.25. A Shanghai-made black-and-white TV set costs around $428, a solid-state radio $33. A nice chess set goes for $8.50, good basketball shoes for $5.25. The high-collared Chung-shan chuang, the so-called...