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STANFORD has as its most prominent China scholar Mark Mancall, a widely traveled historian of Sino-Soviet relations and a dazzling teacher. Stanford's cadre also includes Political Scientist John Lewis and John Gurley, a well-thought-of older economist with Maoist sympathies. Anthropologist G. William Skinner, by poring over maps, gazetteers and economic records, correctly predicted that Mao would subdivide China's large communes into agricultural units of a more traditional size...
Diplomatic Minuet. Of even greater long-term significance is the impact of Sino-American relations on the Soviet Union. Washington acted to put the Peking trip into global perspective, emphasizing that the U.S. had not lost sight of the importance of its relations with the U.S.S.R. in preventing nuclear war. Yet a diplomatic minuet was required to get the point across. Moscow, apparently determined to express no alarm over the 'Washington-Peking rapprochement, did not seek a U.S. explanation-and Rogers was reluctant to summon the Soviet ambassador. But Anatoly Dobrynin's visit to the State Department...
...camera-clutching hordes of American tourists start shuttling across the Hong Kong border to begin the already standard Canton-Shanghai-Peking run. But the prospects for future tours are mind-bending: "Swim the Yangtze in Chairman Mao's wake," for example; or perhaps "Join the Harvest at the Sino-Albanian Friendship Commune." For the present, however, the few Americans allowed into China in the sneakered steps of the U.S. table tennis team have accumulated sufficient experiences to allow construction of a half-Baedeker...
BACK in 1963, before going on to our Tokyo and Moscow bureaus, Jerrold Schecter enrolled in seminars on Sino-Soviet Relations and Defense Policy at Har vard, where he was spending a year as a Nieman fellow. His teacher: a brilliant 40-year-old professor of government from Germany named Henry Kissinger...
...Communists control very little territory in South Viet Nam, during the past year they have dramatically expanded their control over parts of Laos and Cambodia. In fact, the North Vietnamese army (NVA) now controls more real estate on the borders of Viet Nam than ever before. From the Sino-Laotian frontier in the north to the tiny crossroads town of Snuol in the south, Hanoi's troops are masters of an area that measures 840 miles long and 250 miles wide at its broadest point...