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...life in China's political wars. The U.S. has always been fascinated by China, whether it was seen as an ally, a fanatical adversary or, as now, a somewhat remote power that has entered into some limited foreign policy partnership with the U.S. In an increasingly difficult world???Indochina lost, Russian détente severely strained, Southern Europe threatened by Communism, and murky battles looming with the Third World???the U.S. basically wants to know whether, in the long run, China will be friend or foe. The man who will shape a large part of the answer is Teng...
When that last distress call crackled over the air from the beleaguered U.S. merchant ship Mayaguez in the Gulf of Siam last week, it set in motion a dramatic, controversial train of events that significantly changed the image of U.S. power in the world???and the stature of President Gerald Ford. By calling up U.S. military might and successfully forcing the Cambodians to surrender the ship and free the 39-man crew, Ford acted more firmly and decisively than at any other time in his presidency. By drawing the line against aggression in the Mayaguez incident, he put potential adversaries...
...What in the world???what in the name of God was Ehrlichman having something [unintelligible] in the Ellsberg [unintelligible...
...Academy, and trap and skeet shooting on the elegant Hockbruck course. The man who took home gold that he hardly needed was Neapolitan Hosteler Angelo Scalzone. The impeccable socialite was mobbed by his countrymen and unfashionably tossed into the air. This week the attention of Munich Munich?and the world???will focus on the track and field events. Here the U.S., which was universally conceded supremacy in swimming before the Games began, will face its most severe tests. The biggest single event will be the rematch in the 1,500-meter run between Kansas' erratic, enigmatic Jim Ryun and Kipchoge...
...U.S.S.R. has so dominated the title that it seemed to be permanently engraved in Cyrillic script. No Westerner, much less a brash young American, has ever advanced to the finals. Never, that is, until now, and the resulting excitement among the estimated 60 million chess players round the world???and millions of others who do not know a double fianchetto from a double play?is of the kind usually reserved for an epic heavyweight championship fight...