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...campaign, Pat left her husband's entourage only once-for a quick ribbon-cutting ceremony in Reno. This year, uncharacteristically stepping out from the President's shadow, the First Lady undertook the most extended solo campaign trip of her long career-a 5,500-mile, six-day tour that took her to seven states and exposed her to rough weather and even rougher questioning. Never before in the history of U.S. politics have the wives of two presidential candidates squared off so directly...
Like President Nixon's trip last February, Tanaka's six-day visit was a mingling of televised rubbernecking (an estimated 70% of Japan's 27 million TV sets were tuned in to Tanaka's arrival) and "surprisingly frank" closed-door talks. Both sides, understandably, seemed preoccupied with symbolism as well as substance. In his welcoming speech, Chou spoke of China's past suffering from Japanese armies, saying that "we must remember such experiences and lessons." Tanaka limited himself to a terse acknowledgment that the "great troubles" that Japan had inflicted on China had given...
...fledged war broke out between Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalists and Japan's invading Imperial Army in 1937. It is only one of the ironies of the summit that Tanaka's journey of atonement will be another blow to the Nationalists. The Japanese Premier's six-day visit will end on the eve of Oct. 1, making the summit a kind of obeisance to Mao Tse-tung's Communists, who use that date as the anniversary of the triumphant establishment of their regime in Peking in 1949. When a ranking Japanese emissary arrived in Taipei...
This time, however, the activists met with a flexible response on the part of the Administration. In contrast to the spring of 1969, there were no police busts, so threatening rhetoric. no bloodied heads. President Bok and his advisors handled a black student six-day occupation of Massachusetts Hall with a maximum of finesse...
...campaign was so successful that when 35 blacks staged the Mass Hall takeover in April, a picket line of supporters numbering at times as many as 1000 circulated outside the building constantly for the duration of the six-day occupation...