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...respect that Nixon and Chou En-lai were able to establish have not proved to be transferable to their successors. For the strategic partnership between China and the U.S. to survive, there will have to be a restoration of some personal rapport between the principal partners themselves. -By Strobe Talbott...
...policy to ward China returned to Peking last month to commemorate his triumphal 1972 presidential visit, China's current leaders hailed him as "an old friend" and treated him as a visiting head of state. Shortly after Richard Nixon's return home, TIME Diplomatic Correspondent Strobe Talbott interviewed him at his office in New York City and found him relishing the role of elder internationalist. Now 69, Nixon is convinced that his accomplishments in foreign policy will vindicate his presidency. He is proudest of his role in renewing U.S. relations with China. His optimism on the future...
Sultan Qaboos bin Said of Oman is the most forthright, and therefore often the loneliest, of America's friends on the Arabian peninsula. He is also the most optimistic, as TIME Diplomatic Correspondent Strobe Talbott found during an interview with the 41-year-old monarch...
...last of his African guests and changed into a loose-fitting short-sleeve shirt and slacks. The exhaustion showed on his face and sounded in his voice. Instead of English, which he speaks well, he preferred to answer questions in Arabic as he conversed with TIME Diplomatic Correspondent Strobe Talbott. Sometimes Gaddafi's comments were barely audible, but what they lacked in volume, they made up in vehemence. Talbott's report on the interview with the Libyan leader...
...foreign policy issues-he may decide to retreat from his bold but one-sided opening proposal and settle for a limited, interim agreement. That way, he could claim to have accomplished something more in strategic arms control than just to have made a stubborn and unsuccessful try. -By Strobe Talbott...