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...China: Vance and Brzezinski are both committed to the eventual normalization of relations between the U.S. and China, but they disagree over how that card should be played. Vance is sensitive to Soviet paranoia about Sino-American "encirclement" and not eager to exacerbate the Kremlin's fears at this time. Brzezinski sees the Peking connection as an opportunity to keep the Russians off balance. Partly for this reason, he is hoping to visit Peking later this year...
...President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Premier Menachem Begin. Intelligence has supplied background information to Secretary of State Cyrus Vance on every step of his diplomacy in the Middle East. The CIA is probing the likely consequences of the French and West German elections later this year, the course of Sino-Soviet relations, the ethnic conflicts that could rend Yugoslavia after Tito dies, and the possibility of intervention there. Attempts by the U.S. to prepare for world political developments would be inconceivable without intelligence...
William Gleysteen, senior deputy secretary of state and an expert on Sino-American relations, will be the guest speaker at the dinner meeting this evening...
...Marshal Yeh Chien-ying, 77, Defense Minister and, because of recent deaths and purges, apparently the sole Vice Chairman of the party. China's top military figure since 1971, Yeh is thought to be a chief proponent of continuing Sino-American détente...
...first time since they took power in 1949, the Chinese recently permitted Americans to visit the politically and militarily sensitive Sino-Soviet borderlands and Tibet. TIME Diplomatic Editor Jerrold L. Schecter accompanied former Defense Secretary James Schlesinger on the 23-day 8,200-mile journey. Schecter's report...