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...thaw brought on by last week's release ofHarry Wuand First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton's decision to attend a women's conference in China could result in a summit between President Clinton and Chinese President Jiang Zemin. Of course,there's a catch. The Chinese Foreign Ministry today suggested the two leaders might meet if the U.S. "honors its commitment on the question of Taiwan."As far as Beijing is concerned, Washington reneged on its promise to support "one China" when Clinton approved a U.S. visa for Taiwanese President Lee Teng-hui to visit Cornell last June. "For starters...
Second, the country has emerged from three decades of economic isolationism and needs investment, particularly the highways, irrigation systems, schools and hospitals funded by such institutions as the World Bank and Asian Development Bank, which stopped lending to the country under U.S. pressure. No thaw was possible before Suu Kyi was released...
Twenty years ago, two young cold warriors--one a U.S. Air Force fighter jockey, the other a Soviet test pilot--watched from opposite sides of the world as their countries staged a high-tech media event. The brief political thaw known as detente was in full flow, and high overhead the Apollo and Soyuz spacecraft were locked in an orbital tango. Their commanders reached through the spaceships' air locks for a symbolic handshake, amid much talk that the superpowers were going to move from the space race of the 1960s to a new era of space cooperation. Despite efforts...
Profiles of attractive "'Cliffedwellers" werefrequent features, especially "Freshmanettes." Oneprofile of first-year Georganne Williamson wastitled "Southern Belle Takes Toll, WringsHarvardian Hearts; Gracious Georgane SweetensBrooks Tea." The caption of her picture read "HerDixieland charms thaw Cambridge frost...
...naval base at Guantanamo to come to the mainland, and some Cuba experts are hopeful that if Castro keeps his end of the bargain-mainly by not persecuting any rafters returned by the U.S. Coast Guard in the future-the icy relations between Havana and Washington might begin to thaw...