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...knows how this American-Chinese venture will end." So remarked the Soviet press agency Tass last week in the wake of Chinese Vice Premier Teng Hsiao-p'ing's nine-day whirlwind tour of the U.S. The Tass observation was certainly valid. The Chinese leader's candor and expansive personality had charmed the American public, and most of the visit's achievements were on that psychological level. But few concrete answers emerged to some of the tough questions raised by Jimmy Carter's policy of normalizing relations with Peking...
...heard from him. Said one State Department analyst: "Teng had it figured just about right; he knew what would play and what wouldn't." As a result, Moscow only mildly rebuked the U.S. Charged Pravda (inaccurately): "No one [in America] objected to the malicious anti-Soviet insinuations." Soviet Premier Aleksei Kosygin added his own complaint that Washington had not "refuted" Teng's "outrageous" statements. A more substantial Soviet reaction to Teng's visit could yet come, perhaps in a speech by Kremlin Chief Leonid Brezhnev...
Many Israeli Jews are conscientiously aware of the anomalous position of their country's Arab citizens. One of them is Moshe Sharon, who resigned this month as Premier Menachem Begin's adviser on Arab affairs with the warning that Israel "will be making a fateful mistake if it does not act energetically to reduce the level of hostility." Begin's government, fearful that the Islamic revival in Iran might stir up Israel's Arabs, appears to have taken a different approach to the problem. Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan issued an unmistakable warning...
Just one day after China's Vice Premier Teng Hsiao-p'ing ended his visit to the U.S., another Asian leader arrived at the White House last week to warn Jimmy Carter that an expansionist, Soviet-backed Viet Nam threatens peace and stability in Southeast Asia. The new visitor was Premier Kriangsak Chomanan of Thai land, whose country has good reason to feel beleaguered...
Kriangsak came to Washington looking for some kind of U.S. support that might dissuade Hanoi's military strategists from viewing Thailand as ultimately just another domino. The Premier seemed to be satisfied by Carter's assurance that the U.S. was "deeply committed to the integrity and the freedom and the security of Thailand." As a token of that commitment, the President plans to ask Congress to approve transfer to Thai ownership of $11.3 million worth of U.S. ammunition stored in Thailand since the Viet Nam War. Carter Administration officials quietly promised Kriangsak that they would speed up delivery...