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When Chinese Vice Premier Deng Xiaoping visited Houston last year, Rancher John Joyce gave him a Texas-size souvenir: a 1,000-lb. champion brahma bull worth $10,000. Joyce also handed Deng a letter offering to sell more bulls, if China was shopping...
...fire coming from inside the building. This led to speculation that a quarrel had erupted among rival members of the Politburo and had ended in a gunfight. Lending credence to that theory was an official Afghan news agency report a couple of days later that said that Deputy Premier Sultan Ali Kishtmand, a bitter opponent of Sarwari, had been flown to Moscow for emergency medical treatment...
...credence to the theory that one factor in the Kremlin's Afghan adventurism may well have been its longstanding paranoia about China and its fears of a new U.S.-China axis. According to one knowledgeable Asian diplomat, Chinese arms aid for the Muslim rebels significantly increased after Vice Premier Deng Xiaoping's visit to Washington in January 1979. And help from other sources seems to be on the way. Last week Egyptian Defense Minister Lieut. General Kamal Hassan Ali admitted that his country was arming and training Afghan rebels. A senior White House official also confirmed that...
...attended the Islamic conference in Pakistan last month. Moreover, despite Syrian advice to the contrary, the 22,000-man Lebanese army has been rebuilt along sectarian lines; 90% of its officers are Christian (mostly right-wing Phalangist), whereas 80% of its enlisted men are Muslim. Complained Syria's Premier Abdel Raouf Kasm to TIME Correspondent William Drozdiak: "Nothing has been done in four years to achieve national entente or to extend the authority of the legal government throughout the country. Our decision to withdraw is final and irrevocable...
...Conservative strategy this winter corresponded to their strategy of last spring, a fatal mistake. The voters in Ontario, presented with a budget imbalanced in favor of Western Canada--Clark's electoral backbone--turned sour on the Tories. Even Ontario's Conservative premier, William Davis, criticized the austerity budget as unfair. The traditionally divided Tories thus repeated history by flailing at their own flag, leaving Clark with a tattered Tory...