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There was some movement on the issues of troop reduction and arms limitation because the Soviets had relaxed their positions. Does this mean that the Kremlin is genuinely seeking better relations with the West? Certainly the Russians have enough reasons to do so. With the recent slight thaw in Sino-American relations, Moscow is worried anew that a Washington-Peking rapprochement may threaten its interests; force reductions in Europe would allow the Soviets to move more troops to the Chinese border. Another factor, which Brezhnev stressed to visiting Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau two weeks ago, is the economic drain...
...alongside Russia's. Third World politics among socialist nations such as North Vietnam, North Korea and Cuba have since been dominated by debates over these two ideologies. But while Horowitz's last section deals with the prospects of Third World revolutions, it fails to show the effect of this Sino-Soviet ideological split...
...measure of the fierce hostility between China and the Soviet Union is the fact that both countries are training members of several tribes that live along the Sino-Soviet border. In addition, the Chinese provide military training in Tanzania for several groups of black freedom fighters from South Africa, South West Africa, Rhodesia, Angola and Mozambique. They also supply small arms and ammunition to the fedayeen...
Miss Universe? Meantime the delicate business of diplomatic signaling continued. Secretary of State William Rogers took pains to underscore the Administration's official attitude to Premier Chou En-lai's comment that a "new page" had been opened in Sino-American relations. Said Rogers: "We would hope that it becomes a new chapter." President Nixon pointedly called in Team Leader Steenhoven to congratulate him on his role in the affair. Steenhoven himself waited until he was home in Detroit to announce the next step, an American tour "in the near future" by a Chinese table tennis team...
...also admitted, along with a two-man Japanese camera-sound crew. From Hong Kong, LIFE'S British-born John Saar and German-born Freelance Photographer Frank Fischbeck were given visas, as was Tillman Durdin, 64, of the New York Times, another old China hand who covered the Sino-Japanese War from Shanghai in the late 1930s and was the Times's Nanking bureau chief in 1948. Rich, Roderick and Durdin all applied for permission to open permanent bureaus in Peking...