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Lackluster Tour. When President Nixon relaxed trade restrictions with China following the first gambits of Ping Pong diplomacy, Agnew warned against a sudden thaw in U.S.-Chinese relationships. Nixon, engaged in delicate negotiations with Peking, did a slow burn over his Vice President's outspokenness on the issue. Agnew was abroad when Nixon appeared on television July 15 with his China announcement. He subsequently endorsed the Peking visit, downplaying earlier differences. Relations between Nixon and Agnew, never very close, have become chillier. Says one White House aide: "I see the old man's private calendar and Agnew...
This spring, with the opening rally of Ping Pong diplomacy, Sato found himself under tremendous pressure to make a move toward China. Yet Sato decided to play a waiting game, figuring that the U.S. would undertake no major initiatives without consulting...
...pace of change picked up dramatically last April. The American Ping Pong team was invited to Peking; the U.S. relaxed trade barriers on nonstrategic goods. Old China Hand Edgar Snow returned from a trip to Peking with a piece of news that was published in a LIFE article: Chairman Mao wanted a visit by Nixon, who had said in an earlier press conference that he wished to go to China. In a sly aside to Snow, Mao suggested that, for political reasons, Nixon would probably want to come some time after May 1972. Actually, he hopes to go very early...
...feels it beneath his dignity to display any warmth for or interest in ordinary people. For six days, Agnew enjoyed the plush appointments of Seoul's Chosun Hotel, emerging only for ceremonial functions or to play golf and tennis. One day when it rained, he ordered a Ping Pong table sent up to his room. He visited no American soldiers, Korean hospitals, schools, marketplaces or housing projects. In Singapore, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Ethiopia, the routine was essentially the same. In Kenya, Agnew visited the Treetops wild-game preserve, conferred briefly with President Jomo Kenyatta, later lunched with...
...music, travel, science, education and communications. Cousins became the Review's editor 31 years ago, and later its owner. Ten years ago he sold it to the McCall Corp. but kept total editorial control. Recently, however, Editor Cousins, 56, found himself caught in a game of conglomerate Ping Pong, agonizing over where the Review (circ. 650,000) would wind up and whether he could continue to run it in good conscience...