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...Republic of China was expelled from the U.N. As the "other China" recovered from the shock of learning that Washington and Peking would normalize diplomatic relations this week, the island's mood was one of ever greater resolve and patriotism. Two days after Carter's announcement, Premier Y.S. Sun announced that the government was increasing the defense budget and stepping up a development program for major weapons. Since the U.S. was terminating its 1954 mutual defense treaty with Taiwan, said Sun, the republic had no choice but to "establish a more self-sustaining defense industry...
...with "old friends, including Mr. Chiang Ching-kuo," if the "Taiwan authorities" agreed. That offer was also flatly rejected by the Nationalists. Said Chiang Ching-kuo: "[There is] no way for me to allow these two traitors to come to Taiwan." Other Taiwan officials remained highly skeptical of Vice Premier Teng Hsiao-p'ing's assurance to Columnist Robert Novak that China did not intend to lower Taiwan's standard of living after reunification. Said one: "We don't believe a word Teng says. He's a shrewd man, but what he is saying...
...same time, the government of Premier Gholam Reza Azhari, who is also the army chief of staff, was using tough methods to break a nationwide oil strike. In Ahwaz, workers were given their choice of going back to their jobs or being fired; by week's end most of the country's 37,000 oil and refinery employees were back at work, and production rose to roughly half the normal output of 6 million...
...another chapter of peace negotiations. The work we have done is not wasted." So said Israeli Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan last week, as he prepared for a weekend meeting in Brussels to explore ways of resuming the deadlocked talks on an Egyptian-Israeli pact. Both Egypt's Premier Moustafa Khalil and U.S. Secretary of State Cyrus Vance, who were to join Dayan in the Belgian capital, hoped that other long chapters of negotiations would not have to be written. But the possibility of an early resumption of serious bargaining was very uncertain, especially given the still high level...
...Vance had to extend his SALT talks with the Soviets in Geneva. In any case, the White House stressed that the Brussels discussions would deal only with "procedures" for restarting the talks. On that, at least, both Washington and Cairo agreed with Menachem Begin; in Jerusalem, the Israeli Premier bluntly told newsmen that Dayan would be limited to discussing only "how, when and where" negotiations might be resumed...