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Dates: during 1970-1979
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CHAI SPOKE a word of greeting, praised Mao Tse-tung and Chou En-lai for beginning negotiations, mentioned Presidents Nixon and Ford, and thanked Carter, Vance and Zbigniew Brzezinski. He added that normalization would "certainly play an active role in combatting the expansion and aggression of hegemonism and upholding peace and stability in Asia and the world." He expressed the belief that all would go well, as well as the conviction that this was a momentous and great occasion. He ended by toasting the normalization and friendship between the two countries and the health of America's leaders...
Publicly, at least, Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev took the same position. He sent Carter a message acknowledging, in the U.S. President's words, "that the proper relationship between sovereign nations is to have full diplomatic relations." The Soviets objected to the joint Chinese-American communique opposing "hegemony," which is a Chinese code word for Soviet expansionism. Otherwise, Moscow took a wait-and-see attitude toward the U.S. Noting that Carter had assured the U.S.S.R. that the China deal would not harm Soviet interests, Pravda said, "This is a very important statement, and time will show if these words accord...
Even so, the Administration wonders if its closest friend in OPEC did all it could to moderate the price increase. Saudi Arabia's Oil Minister Sheik Ahmed Zaki Yamani is the unofficial leader of the oil world; his word is powerful. This time, however, he was considerably less argumentative than usual. By the time the first session broke up and the ministers put away their pocket calculators and journeyed in heavily guarded motorcycle caravans to dine at the air-conditioned palace of Abu Dhabi's Sheik Zayed bin Sultan al-Nahayan, the new price had been virtually accepted...
...Mark's Gospel. Gospel means good news, and rarely has the word more compellingly been made flesh than in Alec McCowen's incomparable rendering of the King James text. The actor will play a return engagement in 1979. Mark it well...
...lips problem By promising never to raise the retirement age, cut benefits or raise payroll taxes, Gore banks on the surpluses created by the good economy to pay for the baby boomers' retirement. If the economy goes into recession, Gore will have a painful choice: go back on his word, or take money from the rest of the budget to pay for Social Security (which could mean raising income taxes, cutting spending in such programs as education and health care or running up annual deficits...