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Speaking Bitterness. The condition of the party aside. Westerners who have been admitted to China since Peking launched its venture in Ping Pong diplomacy report that in other respects, Mao has made remarkable strides toward his goal. Their dispatches tell of orderly cities where threadbare but smiling millions echo Maoist slogans, of shopkeepers who leave their goods out all night without fear of their being stolen, of a military establishment whose $150-a-month generals uncomplainingly accepted a sizable pay cut in 1969. Maoist thought, some of the travelers reported, has done away with corruption, enabled the deaf to regain...
...Gibson, Newark's first black mayor, indicates that he is well aware of the ways in which real political power is gained and wielded. As for the rhetoric of provocation and hate, perhaps it is wisest to let it blow over and await an invitation to play Ping Pong...
...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...
Meanwhile, China's leaders continue to draw a sharp distinction between the "friendly American people" and the "fascist, imperialist Nixon government." Premier Chou Enlai, the architect of Peking's exercise in Ping Pong diplomacy, has told several recent visitors that there has been "no thaw" at the governmental level. Although the new trade list is clearly a step forward, no one expects a quick change in that chilly situation...
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...