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Tsunami. Their protests had been the most vigorous ever lodged against nuclear testing, both in the U.S. and overseas. Environmentalists and peace groups demonstrated in front of the White House, in Alaska and in Canada. More than 30 Senators led by Massachusetts Republican Edward Brooke sent an eleventh-hour telegram to President Nixon urging him to call off the blast. The Japanese government registered official reservations over the explosion and the possibility of a tsunami, or tidal wave, hitting the Japanese islands...
...Moscow and Washington on a new Secretary-General to replace the retiring U Thant, who collapsed in his office last week and was hospitalized for treatment of a peptic ulcer. A far harder problem is posed by the Middle East. Peking, which last week refused to accept a congratulatory telegram from Israel, one of its supporters in the vote on admission, has all along backed the Palestinian fedayeen, often against Soviet-supported Arab governments. To continue to do so would risk alienating many Arab countries that Peking hopes to enlist as allies. Probably the touchiest question of all is posed...
...case a clear victory for China's Premier Chou Enlai, author of that insistent 1949 telegram and architect of the outward-looking foreign policy that finally levered Peking into the U.N. For Chou, at 73, the vote was the capstone of a brilliant career. As the debate that ended in the expulsion of the Nationalists was drawing to a close in New York, Chou was entertaining the personal emissary of the U.S. President in Peking. When word of the outcome reached Peking (Henry Kissinger learned of it five minutes after he was aloft and homeward-bound in the presidential...
Right after the vote, U.N. Secretary-General U Thant informed Peking by telegram of the General Assembly action. Four days later came a terse cable, signed by Peking's Acting Foreign Minister Chi Pengfei. A delegation would be coming "in the near future," it said; there was speculation, but no confirmation, that it could arrive this week. In no uncertain terms, Chi made it clear that Peking wanted the Nationalists ousted not only from the U.N. but also from the 13 specialized agencies such as the World Health Organization and the International Telecommunications Union. "I believe," Chi concluded briskly, that...
...called "boy"-has the unsparing, unsentimental eye of his age. He can see that Uncle Floyd, though he may sometimes look like a picturesque cowhand from a TV serial and sometimes (with that yellow helmet) like a bug, is really a stupid, selfish, kindly old man. When a telegram announces the death of Aunt Viola in Nebraska, old man and boy take off in the trailer, precariously hitched to an ancient Maxwell. On their way to the home place by the Platte River, they pick up two oligosyllabic polycopulative young people named Stanley and Joy, and a dubious battle sets...