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...signed a private trade agreement worth $20 billion: China will export oil to Japan in exchange for Japanese steel and factories. In a ceremony last month at Peking's Great Hall of the People, Teng attended the signing of a seven-year, $13.5 billion trade and cooperation agreement with France Its projects include French help in developing Chinese telecommunications satellites and TV broadcasting, the modernization and extension of a steel complex, and the construction of power stations, a magnesium plant and other facilities. Most important, France landed an order for two 900-megawatt nuclear power plants at nearly $1 billion...
...Chinese went to the Swedes for cooperation in mining, railroads and telecommunications, to the British for $315 million worth of coal-mining equipment, to the Danes for help in improving Shanghai and other ports. They browsed in Sweden, France and England for modern weaponry with which to rearm their badly equipped military forces. They will probably make only a few selective purchases at first, because of their shortage of capital. Chinese and Americans kept up brisk negotiations. Coastal States Gas Corp., a U.S. firm, agreed to buy 3.6 million bbl. of Chinese crude, the first shipment to arrive early this...
...kids. To prepare for the role, she put in 50 hours learning how to drive a 16-wheel, 40,000-lb. rig. "It's so powerful you could almost run down a street light and not know it," says Raffin. "I was petrified." But the fright was worth it, Raffin thinks, because the film shows how well women can cope on their own. Her hope: Willa will be TV's An Unmarried Woman...
...Cooking (Knopf; 496 pages; $15), is as valuable as its predecessor. Scooping up irresistible formulations from palazzo, trattoria and country cottage, she makes available for the home cook another whole array of la buo-na cucina. Kazan's recipes for veal, in all its luscious Latin variations, are worth a book unto themselves. It so happens that Craig Claiborne and Pierre Franey of the New York Times have produced just such a volume, Veal Cookery (Harper & Row; 229 pages; $10). No meat is more succulent than the creamy pink flesh of milk-fed calf, whether married to crabmeat, crawfish...
...assimilating and liquidating the traumas and griefs of that overlong epoch. If so, then perhaps the most memorable thing about the '70s has been simply that, as Stanford Sociologist Seymour Martin Lipset observed, "nothing disastrous is happening." Such a historical pause may not at the moment seem worth remembering - but it will as soon as disaster drops among us again...