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...sourest notes of the conclave were probably struck during closed-door meetings between Clinton and Chinese President Jiang Zemin. The two met for one hour in what was later described as a "vivid and animated" discussion. Among other things, Clinton requested progress on human rights for dissidents and Tibetans and an end to Chinese sales of missile technology to nations like Pakistan and Iran. Without "overall significant progress" on human rights, Clinton has promised he will not renew China's most-favored-natio n trading status next spring. The discussion grew so vigorous that at one point, according...
...Dallas distaste for the Redskins seemed to have been diluted recently by greater dread of other teams, particularly the Pittsburgh Steelers, but also the Philadelphia Eagles. The sourest personal feuds had dried up and blown away. Diron Talbert, a singularly unruly Redskins tackle, especially had it in for Cowboys Quarterback Roger Staubach. Both are retired now. The Cowboys had won the last six Washington-Dallas games, including a 24-10 victory last month. But then this season bloomed for the Redskins into the most blessed of all their 46 years. During the eight-week strike, most of their tough games...
...embassy before in the ten months since Shah Reza Pahlavi had been forced out of Iran by the Muslim revolution. In February, Marxist guerrillas had seized the embassy and held it for nearly two hours. That time, forces loyal to the Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini, in what now seems the sourest of ironies, came to the rescue of Ambassador William Sullivan and some 100 embassy employees. Since then the ambassador had left, dependents had been sent home, and the garrison staff that remained had grown accustomed to angry commotion in the streets...
There he confronts the sourest and most apprehensive national mood to hang over a Fourth of July holiday in years. For millions of citizens penned at home by exasperating gasoline shortages, the only celebration will be a backyard barbecue?if the sporadic strikes by independent truckers protesting the scarcity and soaring price of diesel fuel do not cause new shortages at the supermarkets. Gas lines in Eastern cities are getting longer, despite the spread of odd-even sales restrictions, and the Tokyo agreement to limit petroleum imports obviously will do nothing to shorten them, since it is a scarcity...
...Sourest Big Apple (and Biggest Bomb): Martin Scorsese's New York, New York...