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...diplomats say he has never strayed from Washington's instructions and has a knack for finding a warm spot in even the surliest of despots. He always reads the history and psychological profile of his potential adversary. He knew that one of Kerubino's daughters had just died of measles, so when talks with the chieftain became heated, Richardson took a break and strolled over to a nearby hut to visit one of Kerubino's other children, who also had measles. "It touched him," Richardson says...
After belatedly bowing to international pressure to stop its nuclear testing, China is showing signs of giving ground on copyright piracy, its surliest trade dispute with the U.S. Unless Beijing cracks down on pirated products, as it promised to do under an international accord in 1995, the U.S. will impose record trade sanctions on $2 billion worth of Chinese clothing and electronic goods by June 17. Acting U.S. Trade Representative Charlene Barshefsky said Tuesday that that China has closed some factories that were producing pirated computer programs, movies and music, but that Beijing must take "further concrete and verifiable action...
There is little overt civic pride. Even Big Business is either too big, fragmented or uninterested to offer the kind of leadership it exerts in cities like Pittsburgh and Atlanta. Extraordinarily kind on occasion, New Yorkers in the mass can be the rudest, surliest, nastiest citizens of America and, with the possible exception of Paris, the world...
...Lift. Dr. Sadusk estimated that at least 8 billion amphetamine tablets are produced each year, and that no less than half of them go into illegal, nonprescription channels, for sale under the counter at bars, gas stations and restaurants. The profits are enough to give even the surliest gangster an amphetamine lift: he can buy the tablets wholesale for $1 a thousand or less, and resell them at $30 to $50 a thousand, while the illicit retailer sells them at a nickel or a dime apiece and takes in from $50 to $100 a thousand...
After four months of enforced hibernation, the press's surliest bear was back on the growl. From Tucson, where he holed up after Hearst's King Features syndicate fired him last summer for daring to attack the boss (he wrote that William Randolph Hearst Jr. was wanting in "character, ability or loyalty''), onetime Hearst Columnist Westbrook Pegler. 68, let it be known that he had found a new vent for his wrath. Beginning in February, said Pegler, he will write one political column a month for American Opinion-the house organ of the John Birch Society...