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...political control "sobering," he was impressed by the people's "hopefulness, dedication and lack of cynicism." For this assignment, he was assisted by Reporter-Researcher Sara Medina, who has been working on China stories for TIME since before the Cultural Revolution in 1966. From Washington, Diplomatic Editor Jerrold Schecter, who accompanied Henry Kissinger on several Peking visits., reported the assessments of State Department China experts. Says Senior Editor Ron Kriss, who supervised the cover project, "The People's Congress marks a new stability in Chinese politics- at least for now - and the decisions ratified there will affect China...
TIME Diplomatic Editor Jerrold Schecter, who accompanied Kissinger, reports that the Chinese were storing grain and digging shelters for a possible Soviet attack, as well as establishing settlements of urban youths near the disputed borders. The message for Washington is clear: China needs its. American counterweight to Soviet might...
...does Kissinger really have a Spenglerian view of Western civilization and its future? Last week, in a conversation with TIME Diplomatic Editor Jerrold L. Schecter, Kissinger seemed to be more hopeful than previous reports had suggested. Sitting in an alcove of Cairo's marble-and-alabaster Tahra Palace during his two-day visit with Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, the Secretary of State conceded that for a historian, the signs might point in the direction of a decline of the West's political systems. But as a statesman, Kissinger emphasized: "I do not accept the decline of the West...
...statesman today faces a dilemma, Kissinger told Schecter; he needs wide vision and yet is overwhelmed by events. A statesman "has no opportunity to think in longer terms. There is now a need for farsightedness of governments to an unusual degree. There is a need for leadership to have confidence." But in the U.S., he believes, there is a sufficient reserve of leadership. "America's ability to go through Watergate with its confidence intact" demonstrates its resiliency. "It is doubtful that any European country could go through the same upheaval without civil war," he adds. "The U.S. is still...
Kissinger, reports Schecter, sees the current energy crisis as a problem that demands the industrial nations enter "a new era of creativity and cooperation that will help the developing nations as well." If nothing is done and oil prices remain high, Kissinger fears, all debts will become worthless paper and trigger a widespread industrial collapse that would have a greater impact on the developing world than on industrial nations...