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During her regime, the Panthers pursued a number of social enterprises that had been started under Newton. They founded and still operate the Oakland Community School, which provides high-level education to 150 ghetto kids. There was and is a program that helps old people to go out shopping and another that provides school lunches. One Panther program offers dances for teen-agers and training in martial arts. Says Oakland County Supervisor John George: "Huey could take street-gang types and give them a social consciousness...
When Secretary of Energy James Schlesinger arrived in China last week for a fortnight's tour of oilfields and industrial centers, he was the fourth high-level member of the Carter Administration to visit a nation that the U.S. does not formally recognize. Schlesinger was hoping to sound out Chinese leaders on ways to end that anomaly. Jimmy Carter would like to recognize the Peking regime, preferably before the 1980 presidential campaign gets fully under way, but the effort involves major diplomatic difficulties, and it may provoke a political storm in the U.S. TIME Diplomatic Correspondent Strobe Talbott...
Although no details of the summit discussions were known at the end of the week, a high-level Israeli participant at Camp David told TIME: "The talks are moving in the right direction." He added that "the main issue is the status of the West Bank. It has been discussed in all its aspects-the security arrangements, territorial settlement and the Palestinian political issue." It was also learned that the Israelis have sensed an improvement in the personal relations between Begin and the two other leaders. Begin, it was said, became more open and less suspicious that his two counterparts...
Pakistan is doing a little bridge building of its own with the Russians, despite its traditionally close ties with China. Earlier this year Zia dispatched a high-level delegation to Moscow. The ostensible purpose was to secure an additional $250 million in credits to finish a steel mill in Karachi that the Pakistanis are building with Soviet help. But in an interview with TIME, Zia made clear that another purpose of the mission was to warn the U.S. that "I must have my own opening?I must have our options open...
...arrive with a fairly clear idea of the outcome. Mostly, they ratify agreements that have already been worked out in intense negotiations by lower-level officials. Often even the concluding communiques are drafted before the parties formally take their seats. This tradition is designed to avoid the dangers of high-level misunderstandings and wounded national pride. But Camp David is unique; a high U.S. official calls it a "virginal experience." It is convening with very little joint preparation and no preliminary agreement. It lacks even a detailed agenda. Instead, as one of the participants remarked, "we're banking a great...