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After Witke had completed her manuscript, Correspondent Richard Bernstein, our China watcher in Hong Kong, flew to New York to read the galleys, select the most revealing excerpts for TIME and write an introduction. Bernstein was especially fascinated by the book's "prolonged glimpse into the kind of privilege enjoyed by Peking's leadership, even as they extol the virtues of egalitarianism...
...Vance added, Soviet leaders have shown "a continuing deep and abiding interest" in reaching agreements on arms control, trade and other issues with the U.S. Western analysts, and diplomats generally, agree that the dispute over human rights resembles a skirmish on a long cease-fire line. Says one Kremlin watcher: "There does seem to be a fairly sharp distinction between this kind of tit-for-tatism and issues like SALT...
...limitation, Russian leaders seem to have embarked on a period of testing in foreign relations, designed to take the measure of Jimmy Carter and the incoming U.S. Administration-especially since Carter in some of his campaign speeches urged a tougher U.S. policy toward the Soviets. A senior American Kremlin watcher feels that the new Administration "will be starting on far cooler terms with the Soviet Union than we would have thought even a year...
There might be a Republican or two in a Carter Cabinet; as in the Nixon bid to Jackson, it can be dramatic politics to offer State to the opposition party. Thus Elliot Richardson, Nelson Rockefeller and Brother David all get "mentioned." But a Republican seems implausible. Says one Carter watcher: "I don't think Jimmy's that mean...
...knowledge associated with it." The only points on which the task forces, or the Faculty, seem to agree are that an "educated person" should know something about a Western culture, a non-Western culture and should be exposed to technology. "But from here on," as one administrative Faculty-watcher recently said, "The Faculty will fly off in all different directions...