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...over final details. Administration officials briefed hundreds of U.S. farmers, businessmen and labor leaders on the minutiae of U.S.-Chinese relations. Presidential aides issued a fat silver briefing folder in which more-or-less familiar Chinese names were rendered almost unrecognizable in Peking's own Chinese transliteration system: Teng Hsiao-p'ing, for example, became Deng Xiaoping...
...Washington prepared last week, with the help of a nine-member Chi nese advance delegation from Peking, for the arrival on Jan. 28 of Chinese Vice Premier Teng Hsiao-p'ing, the first official visit to Washington by a Chinese Communist leader. The Teng summit posed more delicate problems for the White House than the spelling of names. The Chinese had requested the opportunity of meeting "old friends" in the U.S., including former President Nixon, whose own visit to China in 1972 paved the way for U.S.-Chinese diplomatic normalization. In fact, Teng wanted to stop off at Nixon...
...Teng's nine-day visit will begin at 2 p.m. on Jan. 28, when a silver Boeing 707 carrying him and his party of 75, including scientists and journalists, touches down at Andrews Air Force Base outside Washington. Next morning, after a formal welcome that will include a 19-gun salute, Teng and Jimmy Carter will talk for an hour at the White House. There will be more talks between the two leaders on the following day, and then Teng will visit the House and Senate, where he will engage in some personal lobbying...
...late December. But they deadlocked when the Russians suddenly raised issues that had already been settled. By delaying SALT II, Moscow was able to postpone the Carter-Brezhnev summit, which had been tentatively planned for the middle of this month, just a couple of weeks before China's Teng is due to arrive...
Among his other talents, China's Vice Premier Teng Hsiao-p'ing is demonstrating an adeptness in the care and feeding of American newsmen. As part of its celebration of the New Year's Day normalization of relations with Washington, the Peking regime invited 27 U.S. reporters to the Middle Kingdom for a two-week tour. A high point was meeting with Teng in the Great Hall of the People, the first such session for American newsmen with a leader of the People's Republic. Teng fielded questions with ease and even showed a touch...