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...ranking China watcher in Washington discreetly observes that "it will not be a visit filled with news." As evidence, both sides agreed last month to cut Ford's stay from six to five days. Nonetheless, the Chinese reception will be as scrupulously correct−if not as spectacular−as that given Richard Nixon in his historic 1972 visit. U.S. TV technicians have already started work on installations in China for live transmissions. Ford's mornings will be for sightseeing at such likely sites as the Forbidden City and the Great Wall; afternoons will be for meetings, probably...
...copies of the Milwaukee Sentinel, and constant invocations of deity piercing loudly and unecologically through the bucolic serenity of the Northland forest. Earlier, we pulled in to pay and encountered an old woman who began to babble about mushrooms--she was hell-bent, she told us, for the mushroom watcher's club meeting at nearby Nicolet College. She clutched her mushroom directory. Her daughter, a pious-looking woman with butterfly glasses who ran the place, rolled her eyes in embarassment after her mother had bustled out, and remarked that gee I had even remembered my license plate number in filling...
With their usual savvy in separating reality from official propaganda, ordinary Russians seemed to recognize that the joint flight was as much a diplomatic exercise as a technological feat, and they were divided on its value. One launch watcher at the GUM store, Valery Gromov, a Moscow mathematician, suggested that the joint U.S.-Soviet mission might help "move aside the feelings of mistrust" on both sides. But another middle-aged Muscovite disagreed. "Everyone knows the political side of it," he grumped. "They have no need to talk about...
...least in the way she deals with it. In her earlier works, she has been caught up in the struggles of the main characters. Their growth has been partially obscured by the author's own involvement in it. Her involvement in this novel is defined: she is the watcher, and, although she understands Emily's growth, she stands back from it. She has already been through the struggle to achieve adulthood, and can only guide by example. While she has used an omniscient narrator in other books, the character's struggles have been her own, and their realism prevented resolution...
Despite the rash of Asian leaders forming links with Peking, a strong case can be made that the biggest loser of the Viet Nam War was Communist China and not, as it may at first have appeared, the U.S. One admittedly prejudiced senior China watcher in Washington puts it thus: "The removal of the relatively benign American presence from the southern flank of China has caused Peking a lot of worry. Hanoi's relations with China are uneasy. Soviet access to Southeast Asia-possibly a naval base at Cam Ranh Bay [site of the largest U.S. military installation during...