Word: visiters
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...sailors' response was intended to reflect China's priorities in foreign affairs these days, and it typified the tone of Brzezinski's three-day visit to Peking. Filled with good will and banter, the talks nevertheless carried a strong and serious anti-Soviet message. Brzezinski tried to keep this theme from raising Soviet anxieties too high, but he did not mind lifting them a little. "I do not want to suggest that there was congruity or the shaping of some sort of alliance," he carefully explained after his return to Washington. "But there was a recognition...
...Kolwezi appear to have changed that. Late last week U.S. Secretary of State Cyrus Vance met Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko in New York City and delivered what was said to be his toughest private lecture to date on the Soviet role in Africa. During his three-day visit to Peking, Carter's National Security Adviser, Zbigniew Brzezinski, urged the Chinese to step up their economic assistance to Africa to provide a counterweight to that of the Russians. Vice President Walter Mondale sharply criticized the Soviet Union in a U.N. speech for its obdurate stand on disarmament. In the meantime...
Castro seems to have little difficulty in making Cubans accept his African adventures. Among other things, the African policy provides a vent for the pent-up energies of young Cubans faced with a stagnating economy and limited employment prospects at home. On a recent visit to Havana, TIME Washington Correspondent Jerry Hannifin was told by a Cuban air force reservist: "I will be glad to help in Africa, to help our brothers finish off neocolonialism and racism." Others are less enthusiastic but too prudent to disagree. Said one university student: "I have friends who know that some Cubans have been...
Summoned home after a 20-year absence to underwrite these marriages, Andrew is most concerned that Barbara should be squandering her high passion on the Salvation Army. He agrees to see her shelter if she and Cusins will visit his cannon works. At the shelter, we meet sycophantic derelicts, ruffians and pitiably broken men. But it is Undershaft who nonchalantly breaks Barbara's heart, and opens her eyes. He signs a check for ?5,000, matching a sum from a notorious distiller named Bodger, so that the Salvation Army shelters may stay open. When the Army's general...
Throughout this week, alumni will visit the Boston Pops, tour Quincy market, enjoy a New England lobster dinner at a suburban country club, and dance and drink to jazz combos...