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...well as the U.S. varieties. Battling back, French producers have launched the first publicity drive in the French champagne industry's history. At a cost of $425,000, billboards have been put up in some areas of France and neighboring Belgium that show two glasses raised in a toast and proclaim: CHAMPAGNE-NOTHING REPLACES IT. So far, the producers have resisted the urge to extend the champagne campaign to other countries, however, and even the limited publicity blitz has stirred discomfort in the industry. "It's not the thing to do," says one venerable champagne maker. "Champagne...
...that the President of the U.S. would get an audience came after the steamed Wuchang fish course during the big banquet held in the Great Hall of the People the night he arrived. Ford had finished his toast to the Chinese and was moving along the head tables clinking glasses. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger trailed in his wake. When they reached Mao's grandniece, Wang Hai-jung, a vice minister who arranged Kissinger's meeting with Mao in October, Kissinger leaned over to her and said: "I suppose you are going to ask us to make...
...Peking. He used it to characterize his long conversation with Chairman Mao Tse-tung. He unfurled it again to describe his three morning sessions with Vice Premier Teng Hsiao-ping, the tough Pekingese who is acting operational head of the Chinese government. And finally, in his last champagne toast, Ford declared that the whole visit had been "significant," adding that his talks with the Chinese leaders had been "friendly, candid, substantial and constructive." It was as if the President constantly had to remind himself-and the people around him-that his journey across the Pacific was more than a political...
Stark Reality. At the welcoming banquet in the Great Hall of the People, the atmosphere turned briefly ominous. Teng in his toast sternly warned the Americans against being roundheeled with the Soviets on detente, which the Chinese regard as naive and a self-defeating attempt to appease imperialist Moscow. Mystifying the Americans, Teng summed up Peking's world outlook with a Maoist aphorism: "Our basic view is, there is great disorder under heaven, and the situation is excellent." Less inscrutably, he added: "Rhetoric about detente cannot cover up the stark reality of the growing danger of war." Ford...
...Drink a toast to Widow Clicquot...