Word: visiters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...party was to board a 90-ft. hydrofoil for a high-speed tour of Seattle's port. Among the sights: a gram elevator and loading dock that the Chinese specifically asked to see, a container loading dock and the Lockheed shipyard. In the afternoon, Teng was to visit the Boeing plant in Everett 30 miles north of Seattle. There, on the floor of the world's most spacious building (200 million cu. ft.), are eleven Boeing 747s in various stages of construction. After dinner with executives of five firms that do business with China (Dungeness crabs, oysters...
...moment, American officials were pleasantly impressed by how smoothly Teng's visit had gone, and Teng Hsiao-p'ing, in his reserved way, seemed to share the mood of jubilation. Said he: "The honeymoon will continue." It was a beguiling prediction, for Teng is a beguiling man, but such prospects should not cause Americans to lose sight of their basic interests...
...fact that he has never been in Moscow to parley in the Kremlin with Leonid Brezhnev and the Politburo will be even more of a handicap to Carter when the Soviet chief makes what is almost sure to be a SALT-signing visit in Washington this spring. The Soviet summit is "big casino," in the words of one American. Carter will be dealing with a superpower, not a nation of poverty that happens to reek with potential...
That will help cool any White House session with the Soviets. But the sooner Carter returns the expected Brezhnev visit and gets himself to the Kremlin, the better off we all will be. Carter may have an inkling about that. When he greeted Teng on the South Lawn of the White House last week, he dragged out that old Chinese proverb: "Seeing once is worth more than 100 descriptions...
...Taiwan, Teng's trip was presented differently. TV coverage of the visit was dominated by shots of the anti-Teng demonstrators. It was difficult, however, to discern exactly what the crowds were protesting because Teng himself was not shown at all on Taiwan's TV screens...