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...Significant" was a word never far from Gerald Ford's lips during his five-day visit to Peking. He used it to characterize his long conversation with Chairman Mao Tse-tung. He unfurled it again to describe his three morning sessions with Vice Premier Teng Hsiao-ping, the tough Pekingese who is acting operational head of the Chinese government. And finally, in his last champagne toast, Ford declared that the whole visit had been "significant," adding that his talks with the Chinese leaders had been "friendly, candid, substantial and constructive." It was as if the President constantly...
...believes that New York municipal workers are shedding too much blood from the city's cuts. Two weeks ago, he was outraged when the Emergency Financial Control Board, the fiscal overseer imposed by the state on the city in September, rejected an agreement that had ended a five-day teachers' strike last month. The board, which is controlled by Governor Hugh Carey, challenged the settlement as too costly, and may throw out many of its pay increases...
Henry Kissinger has made seven trips to Peking since his dramatic secret visit in 1971. Last week he flew off on a five-day journey to the Far East that will take him to Tokyo (twice), as well as to the capital of the People's Republic. Around Washington, some of the Secretary's critics were asking, "Is this trip necessary?" Although the U.S. and China still have major areas of disagreement-notably over the status of Taiwan-they have learned to live with their differences. The Secretary of State is friendly with the men who make China...
...Gandhi herself spent a five-day working holiday in Kashmir, talking politics with Sheik Abdullah, chief minister of the state, and visiting Indian troops in the border areas opposite China and Pakistan. Government officials, who had been stung by previous criticism from Washington, were clearly pleased by Foreign Minister Y.B. Chavan's talks with Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and President Ford's remark. "We will welcome him here," said Mrs. Gandhi, "and he can see for himself...
...more workers except in an extreme emergency. The control board seemed to be forcing him to defer wage increases in the city's labor contracts for another two years. Further, union leaders were upset by the board's rejection of the agreement that ended a five-day teachers' strike last month; the board found the settlement too expensive...