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Peking has tried to persuade Hanoi and Phnom-Penh to negotiate a ceasefire. Although each side accuses the other of aggression, the Chinese have been carefully ambiguous in apportioning blame. Teng Hsiao-p'ing's most recent remark on that subject was a masterpiece of inscrutability: "Whoever provoked the conflict will come to no good...
When Griffin Bell announced William Webster's appointment to the FBI post, he noted proudly that it had been made "without regard to political party." One motivation for the remark: both he and President Carter had become embroiled in a controversy over their desire to sack a Republican, David Marston, as U.S. Attorney in Philadelphia...
...subject tried to be gracious. It is "a remarkable example of modern art," pronounced Sir Winston Churchill at the unveiling in Westminster Hall in 1954 of his 80th birthday present, a portrait commissioned by Parliament and painted by the famed English neoromanticist Graham Sutherland. But his remark was tongue in cheek, and the audience roared. Winnie thought the portrait, which had a gloomy, resigned-to-age air about it, made him look "half-witted, which I ain't." His dutiful wife Clementine put it out of sight in the basement and promised her husband that it would never...
...inspection-at least until the U.S. and U.S.S.R. start reducing their own nuclear stockpiles. Carter agreed to sell India the heavy water and uranium that it needs for its nuclear reactors. Whether a sharp letter from Secretary of State Vance will follow is now uncertain because of the overheard remark. Asked what he would do if he received such a letter, Desai said diplomatically, "I would not regard it as cold or blunt...
...advised interference in the filibuster designed to block efforts to raise the ceiling on natural gas prices--an effort the administration also opposed. That this bickering and confusion have caused the administration to lose faith in its ability to work with a feisty Congress was shown in a remark by energy chief James R. Schlesinger '50 to the effect that the administration would be willing to compromise still further by giving increased tax credits to industries that convert to coal, returning a larger portion of revenues from the proposed energy tax to the oil industry, and allowing regulated natural...