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There was a slight sense of deja vu about the scene in the White House East Room last week. Just 26 days earlier, Jimmy Carter had sat there before the cameras and klieg lights, flanked by Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Premier Menachem Begin, to announce that the leaders were ready to sign two "framework" agreements that had been hammered out during 13 days of negotiations at Camp David. This time Carter's companions were Israeli Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan and Egypt's newly appointed Defense Minister Kamal Hassan Ali. Their task: to work out the details...
...ouster was a stunning victory for Vice Premier Teng Hsiao-p'ing, 74, who has emerged as China's major policymaker since his return to power last year. Bitter over the obloquy and humiliation heaped upon him during the Cultural Revolution, Teng has been purging the party ranks of officials who rose to prominence in those turbulent times. Chief among his targets have been those, like Wu, who attacked Teng personally, even forcing him to parade through the streets of Peking wearing a dunce...
Even after Premier Chou En-lai had helped to reinstate Teng, making him a Deputy Premier in 1973, Wu was among the officials who continued to oppose him. In 1976, when Teng was deposed a second time, for supposedly having fomented riots in Peking's T'ien An Men Square, Wu made a serious mistake. The mayor branded Teng a "capitalist roader," one of the worst insults in the Communist Chinese lexicon. After Teng made his sensational second comeback some 15 months ago, even attempts to save Wu by some key Politburo leaders failed to protect the mayor...
...There's an inexorable quality to Teng's way of operating," says one Hong Kong Sinologist. "He patiently isolates and weakens his enemies and then, when the moment is right, he gets rid of them altogether." Analysts believe that the Vice Premier's power grab worries Chairman Hua, who has been attempting to keep the purges from splitting the party leadership into pro-and anti-Teng factions. The fact that Wu lingers on in the Politburo suggests that Hua has somehow worked out a face-saving compromise - allowing Teng his vengeance while preventing bloodshed from weakening party...
Aware of the public relations value of the visit, the Japanese gave a royal welcome to the Americans, whose trip was paid for entirely by Washington. Premier Takeo Fukuda popped in at two receptions in Tokyo and even conversed with Kreps and others in English, a language he almost never uses in public. Japan's aggressive MITI (Ministry of International Trade) and the big trading houses had arranged for the visitors more than 3,000 interviews with potential buyers, and a few sales had been prudently lined up ahead of time. When Mrs. Kreps criticized Japan's reluctance...