Word: tripped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...refreshing change from the traditional methods used to cover the People's Republic. Says he: "Except for occasional canned tours inside China, we had to rely on the tedious scrutiny of documents, along with interviews with refugees, emigres and other travelers. Now, even as Teng's trip inaugurates a new era in Sino-American relations, it also heralds a better epoch in China reporting, one in which we will have regular contact with the Chinese...
...busy to count heads after every rest stop, but he doesn't want to leave anyone behind. A buddy system springs up as spontaneously as food and drink. Dennis, the whale man, is matched with Linden and Jerry, a large, long-haired Texan who is taking the trip, he says, because he "just can't stand the craziness in San Francisco any more." It is Jerry who produces a deck of cards, and the first hand of what turns out to be a five-day rolling poker game gets under way, wooden matches serving as chips...
...nine-day visit to the U.S. last week. After surviving purges back home, setting his country on a quick-step march toward modernization, and winning diplomatic recognition from the most powerful nation in the West, Teng could be forgiven for indulging in a moment of triumph. His trip to Washington was the first ever by a top-ranking Chinese Communist leader, and it added a personal normalization of relations between the two countries to the diplomatic normalization that took effect...
...Soviets at first scarcely mentioned Teng's trip. Then, angered by his denunciation, Pravda blasted Teng for "rabid anti-Sovietism and hostility toward the policy of relaxation of international tension." The Soviets, however, seemed to recognize that the Administration was trying to put itself at a distance from Teng's harshest statements. Thus Soviet attacks on the Chinese leader spared Carter...
...most controversial guest was Richard Nixon, whom Teng had asked to see because his 1972 trip to Peking began the chain of events that led to normalization of relations. It was Nixon's first visit to the White House since his resignation in 1974, and there were some awkward moments. Speaker O'Neill's wife refused to sit at the same table with him. The former President stayed in a corner of the East Room during cocktails, talking with former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. "I said that I was glad to see him again," said Kissinger...