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...There is in Southeast Asia today a floating refugee population of well over 250,000 that has sacrificed its native culture and heritage only to be caught in a bureaucratic netherworld. Violated in a dozen ways every day, people snap under the strain. Repeatedly raped by pirates during a ten-day crossing of the Gulf of Thailand, one Vietnamese teen-ager spent her first days ashore maniacally screaming. More often the break is less dramatic. Once I sat through a painful conversation in which a well-meaning German explained to a Vietnamese peasant family why it simply would...
...sudden move, a Tehran court handed down a ten-day injunction blocking further payments to General Telephone & Electronics, which has been drawing down a huge letter of credit for services rendered on a $700 million project to modernize Iran's telephone system. A team of GTE negotiators had believed they were making progress toward an amicable settlement. But then GTE's local client, state-owned Telecommunications Company of Iran, sued to halt payments on the outstanding credit to GTE worth $194 million, charging that the company had installed inoperative equipment...
...Kraft go overboard in praise of China on this latest, ten-day trip to five cities. The five columns he wrote portray China as beset by ideological and economic confusion, and disappointed with what Peking perceives as the U.S.'s unwillingness to stand up to the Soviet Union. Kraft did far less independent wandering than on his previous trips, but visited more museums and historic sites. "This was the first time that I bathed in the sea of Chinese history," he says. "I had the almost existential sense of these 6,000 years of rising civilization in China...
...Soviet assurances on emigration before the amendment is repealed. Anything less, said an aide, "would be a terrible signal. We would indicate to them that we are willing to bend the law to accommodate them." On the other hand, Ohio Congressman Charles Vanik, who returned last week from a ten-day trip to Moscow and Leningrad, is willing to waive the restrictions without assurances, as long as "this improved climate on emigration is really Soviet policy...
...Georgia had renewed his tan in Georgia's sun. His ten-day vacation on isolated Sapelo Island had been so relaxing that he wants to make it a regular refreshment stand. His jogs along the Atlantic had tightened a stomach already impressively taut for a man of 54. He had even cultivated a new hair style by shifting his part from right to left. And, as Jimmy Carter returned to the White House last week, he was in an upbeat mood, telling intimates that the nation's political climate was finally turning in his favor. Said...