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Brelis, on a two-week assignment in Saudi Arabia, left after five days to return to Egypt. Jerusalem Bureau Chief Dean Fischer, who only a week earlier had flown from Israel to Washington with Premier Begin on his sudden trip, quickly hopped a plane back to Jerusalem in order to cover Begin's return. Fischer thus lost a traveling companion, Photographer David Rubinger. Besides shooting the trip for TIME, Rubinger, an Israeli citizen, had been chosen by Begin to be his official photographer during the U.S. visit, so it behooved him to remain with the Premier...
...invasion of Viet Nam by China reminds me of the things Vice Premier Teng said in his interview with Time Inc. Editor in Chief Hedley Donovan: "China is quite poor." Apparently, nations are never too poor to wage war and destroy. What a folly...
...devise a cease-fire formula. Western and Third World members lined up behind a proposed resolution calling for reciprocal withdrawal of both Vietnamese and Chinese troops. China indicated that it was in favor, but negotiations collapsed in the face of a certain Soviet veto. In the light of Vice Premier Teng's festive reception in the U.S., and Washington's tepid response to the Chinese invasion, the Soviet resentment of America's role in the crisis was superficially understandable, but not warranted by the facts. Moscow had been informed after Teng's visit about President Carter...
DIED. W.A.C. Bennett, 78, nicknamed "Wacky," longtime Premier of British Columbia (1952-72), whose aggressive economic policies gave his province an unprecedented prosperity that became known as "Bennett's boom": in Kelowna...
...normalization of relations, the Chinese invited Blumenthal to visit the People's Republic to discuss improving economic ties with the U.S. From the time he arrived in Peking, Blumenthal, who is sometimes a moody and distant man, was buoyant and lighthearted. Riding back from a meeting with Vice Premier Teng Hsiao-p'ing, whom he addressed by his name and title in Chinese, Teng Hsiao-p'ing Fu-tsung-li, Blumenthal giddily burst into a Chinese children's song. While his aides looked on uncomprehending, the Chinese security man and driver burst out laughing...