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White House aides are convinced that the present regime in China is genuinely pragmatic and sincere in its desire for modernization. Even when de facto Ruler Deng Xiaoping and Zhao criticized Reagan privately for U.S. policies in the Middle East and Central America, TIME Peking Bureau Chief David Aikman reported, they seemed more concerned about means than ends. The Chinese leaders tacitly approved of Reagan's steps to check the U.S.S.R. (including his arms buildup), but warned the President that he needed to be more artful in his dealings with the Soviets, who are skillful meddlers and propagandists...
Last weekend's display of good will was more than just a matter of pomp and pandas. Reagan met for serious talks with each of China's current leaders: de facto Ruler Deng Xiaoping, Premier Zhao Ziyang, Party Leader Hu Yaobang and President Li Xiannian. The Chinese mentioned Taiwan again and again, but in measured tones; ultimatums were not delivered. Deng, while forswearing any explicit alliance with Washington, made it clear over the course of his 2½ hours with Reagan on Saturday that he shares the American President's fundamental distrust of the Soviets. Several trade...
Marcinkus, who also heads the Vatican bank, remains under a cloud because of the bank's dealings with scandal-ridden Banco Ambrosiano. John Paul also made a major change in removing himself as direct ruler of the Vatican City government in order to stress his role as Catholicism's spiritual leader. The new administrator: Secretary of State Agostino Cardinal Casaroli, who is second only to the Pope in the Vatican hierarchy...
That single act, Touré would often say over the next quarter-century, was the proudest moment of his life. It also represented a high point for both Guinea and Touré, a son of a poor farmer who became the West African nation's first and only ruler. When Touré died last week at 62 in a Cleveland hospital, to which he had been rushed for treatment of a worsening heart condition, he left behind a record of thoroughgoing repression, oppression and tyranny that began to abate only a few years ago. Lamented France...
...both might and glory from the struggle against Iraq. Military leaders--many of whom have had their close colleagues executed under the current regime and all of whom have had to fight a war perpetuated and selfishly used by Khomeini--have good reason to feel antagonistic towards the religious ruler. When the war ends, many of these leaders will have the opportunity to reenter the domestic political scene; public attention will once again focus on domestic issues...