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...American shopping list is a follow-up to last April's flurry of Ping Pong diplomacy. At that time, while the Chinese played host to the U.S. table tennis team in Peking, President Nixon announced a series of trade and travel concessions. He also promised to allow U.S. businessmen to sell non-strategic goods to China. For five weeks a special team from the State, Treasury, Commerce, Agriculture and Defense departments worked to compile a master list. For three weeks after that, Under Secretaries from each department, along with National Security Adviser Henry Kissinger, reviewed it item by item...
...muddy Chuo Shui River runs clear, great events follow. Recently, the Chuo Shui ran clear for the first time since 1949, when Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's shattered armies retreated to Taiwan from the mainland. The event apparently portended this time was Peking's venture in Ping Pong diplomacy and Washington's warm response. One thing is clear besides the water: any real rapprochement between the U.S. and the mainland regime hinges on Taiwan, a verdant island of 14 million people. As Peking's Premier Chou En-lai recently put it, "The main dispute between...
...Ping Pong Samba. Last year Williams put down a Black Power riot that coincided with an attempted mutiny by elements of his 750-man army. In the recent campaign he attacked his leading opponent, A.N.R. (for Arthur Napoleon Raymond) Robinson, 44, as a "halfwit" and said the others "could change places with the jackasses in the canefields." He told voters: "I have the power. I say come, and they cometh, I say go, and they goeth." The boast inevitably inspired an opposition sign: COMETH, GOETH, VOTETH...
Many heeded the advice. On election eve, Williams rode around Port of Spain in a carnival shirt embroidered with the words PING PONG SAMBA. A loudspeaker blared, "Come out by the thousands and vote. Mothers, we are counting on you." Mothers and others merely "limed" (loafed) under pink-blossomed poui trees in Queen's Park, however, or watched a cricket match...
...were designed to be used entirely by the U.S. Air Force for the prosecution of the Viet Nam War. As to your statement that declining U.S. aid has persuaded the Thais that the times are changing, one only has to take a quick glance at the recent reports on Ping Pong diplomacy to see that even the U.S. is not immune to change...