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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...House. He meets tout Washington in a dizzying three-day whirl of breakfasts and banquets, sightseeing tours and working lunches. He then embarks on a four-day cross-country fiesta that offers him additional fetes, factory tours, press conferences and even barbecue and wild West shows?plus an unequaled public forum for airing China's views...
...visit also holds potentially grave risks. Moscow's Americanologists are geared up to scrutinize every public statement?every toast, every press conference comment, every offhand remark ?by Teng for evidence of an anti-Soviet thrust to his visit. In an interview with Time Inc. Editor in Chief Hedley Donovan four days before embarking on his U.S. journey, Teng was openly, explicitly anti-Soviet, going so far as to urge a U.S.China alliance against Moscow (see following story). Publication of the interview on the day Teng is to sit down for his first talk with President Carter could confirm...
...aides would go on at length about the Soviets' "hegemonist intentions." Said a Government analyst who has heard Teng's presentations several times: "They've been doing that to us for six years." Another State Department expert predicted that no matter how muted Teng might prove in his public statements, in private he would stress that the primary object of his trip was to persuade the U.S. to take a tougher stance toward the Soviet Union. That, said the expert, would take precedence even over Teng's search for help in modernizing China...
...last fall, when Ford Motor Co. workers wrested a 17% raise after a bruising two-month strike. Since then, few unions have been willing to settle for less. The truckers, for example, have spurned a 15% hike proposed by the country's haulage firms and are demanding 22.5%; public workers want up to a whopping 41% increase. Even Callaghan himself has violated his own guidelines. In a fruitless effort to head off the government employees' walkout, he dangled increases of 8% to 9% before the lowest-paid public workers, but to no avail...
...industry to a near standstill. Locomotive drivers repeated crippling one-day work stoppages that forced hundreds of thousands of commuters into their cars and onto highways made treacherous by a blanket of snow. Still more troubles loomed as London's subway workers considered striking this week. Four public employees unions, whose 1.5 million members include nursery attendants, teachers, hospital workers and crematory operators, staged a "day of action" walkout that afflicted Britons from the cradle to the grave. The public-be-damned attitude of the unions was chillingly summarized by Bill Dunn, an official of the striking ambulance drivers...