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...Yemen, Tanzania, France, Albania and Rumania. Chou's travels will climax a new departure in Chinese diplomacy. After several years' abstention from normal diplomatic relations with other countries, China is returning to international life. Over the past three weeks, Peking has sent ambassadors to Poland, Hungary and Yugoslavia, bringing to 25 the number of Chinese envoys abroad. Once again the lights are flicking on in Chinese embassies all over the world...
With these goals, China has embarked on a policy that is considerably more pragmatic and less ideological than it used to be. In pursuit of its national interest, it has even started courting nations that it used to castigate-Yugoslavia, for example. Peking has been host this summer to a strikingly varied group of officials from Zambia, Sudan, France, the Congo Republic, Poland and South Yemen. Rumanian Defense Minister Ion lonita was overwhelmed with hospitality and treated to a private audience with the usually inaccessible Chairman Mao. But for all the activity at home, the main thrust...
Except in Yugoslavia, where authorities are relatively relaxed, the shadow of the secret police strikes some of the tourists. A coed found people in Prague "really paranoid about the police. They kept looking around to see if anyone was watching us; they wouldn't come within a block of our hotel...
Died. George V. Allen, 66, director general of the Foreign Service Institute and twice an Assistant Secretary of State; of a heart attack; in Bahama, N.C. A diplomat who rose to the rank of Career Ambassador, Allen served as envoy to Yugoslavia, India, Nepal, Iran and Greece, before becoming director of the U.S. Information Agency (1957-60). After retiring, he was appointed president of the Tobacco Institute, a position he held until being recalled to head the Foreign Service Institute in 1966. Often mistaken for George E. Allen, jolly friend and collector of Presidents (Roosevelt, Eisenhower), Ambassador Allen was once...
...month's vacation from the attentions of Rome's paparazzi went Sophia Loren, 35, with her husband, Italian Film Producer Carlo Ponti, and their 18-month-old son Cheepy (C.P. Jr.). On the well-guarded Adriatic island of Yugoslavia's President Tito, a longtime Loren friend, photographers will be no problem-though Cheepy's language may cause some international complications. Since his father speaks to him only in Italian, his mother in English and his nursemaid in German, the youngest Ponti communicates in a linguistic potpourri ("Morgen acqua okay" -'This morning the water is fine...