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...cultural distance may also contribute to another problem many refugees cite--the difficulties they face in finding academic positions in America. Ta Wan Tai, a research associate at the Law School who came from Vietnam in 1975, says the only way a foreign scholar can get a permanent appointment is through the regular tenure route. At "a university of the highest prestige" like Harvard, he adds, "one scholar cannot easily carve out a niche...
...degrees of skepticism or approval. In a joint statement with Helsinki Watch and Americas Watch, two human rights groups, Michael Posner, executive director of the Lawyers Committee for International Human Rights, accused the Administration of "disturbing biases" toward countries in which it "has a strong political stake." Hue-Tam Tai, a Vietnamese professor of history at Harvard University, questioned the conclusion that Hanoi was last year's most egregious human rights violator. "There are other countries, including China, Iran and some U.S. allies in South America, that I would consider very likely worse," she said...
...face may be more distinctive placed in an Olympic context Carruthers and his sister Kitty stated on the 1980 team, after gaining fame in the another world in 1975 when they won national honors. They placed fourth in the 1980 Olympic pairs competition although most attention went to Americans Tai Babulonia and Randy Gardner With Bronze medals in World Championship competition and Gold medals in the United States, they are America's brightest hope for the 1984 competition...
Ever since Chou En-lai first raised a goblet of fiery mao-tai to welcome Richard Nixon on his historic visit to Peking in 1972, American and Chinese officials have been toasting the friendship between the great Chinese and American peoples. But the fact is, of course, that from their beginnings Sino-American relations have had little to do with friendship and everything to do with a shared animosity toward the Soviet Union. For the past decade, the China factor has been a critical equalizer in the world balance of power. The Chinese People's Liberation Army ties down...
...scene was deceptively convivial. There was Vice President George Bush, smiling affably as his host, Chinese Communist Party Vice Chairman Deng Xiaoping, raised a glass of mao-tai in a toast to Sino-American friendship. In fact, after two days of talks with China's top leadership, Bush had failed to mend a relationship between the two nations that has been deteriorating virtually from the day President Ronald Reagan took office. When Bush returned to Washington last week, he could only say that he was taking some unspecified "new ideas" back to the President, together with a Chinese warning...