Word: premiered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While the West Bank mayors were lobbying for the Palestinian cause in Washington, the P.L.O. received a boost from U.S. Civil Rights Leader Jesse Jackson, off and running on a self-styled Middle East peace mission. Sparks flew from the moment Jackson arrived in Jerusalem, where Premier Menachem Begin snubbed the black activist because of his sympathy for the P.L.O. Said Jackson: "Mr. Begin's refusal to meet me represents a rejection of blacks in America, their support and their money...
...readiness to display "a reasonable, constructive approach" to normalizing relations between the two countries. But he also noted that Moscow "resolutely condemns the ideology and policy of Maoism as deeply hostile to Marxism-Leninism, the interests of socialism and the cause of peace." In Peking, Chinese Vice Premier Deng Xiaoping similarly put a damper on the Moscow meeting in remarks to a foreign visitor, Canada's ex-Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau. Reported Trudeau: "He made it quite clear that in his mind the differences between Moscow and Peking have their origin in Russian chauvinism that is worse...
...Peter Lougheed, premier of Alberta, said yesterday Canada can no longer supply oil to the United States, but added that his province is prepared to double its natural gas exports to meet American energy demands...
...Premier discussed these issues with several senators, including Sen. Henry Jackson (D-Wash.) and Sen. Frank Church (D-Idaho), when he visited in Washington this week. He also met with Charles R. Duncan, the new secretary of energy...
...another 15 working on a statement that later came to be known as the Shanghai Communique. Nixon had seen and approved a draft communique prepared by me and my staff. It followed the conventional style, highlighting fuzzy areas of agreement and obscuring differences with platitudinous generalizations. Quite uncharacteristically, the Premier made a scorching one-hour speech?at the express direction of Mao, he said?declaring that our approach was unacceptable. The communique had to set forth fundamental differences; otherwise the wording would have an "untruthful appearance." Our present draft was the sort of banality the Soviets would sign but neither...