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...banquet not held in an embassy or a government hall. During his 1975 state visit, for example President Gerald Ford gave a Chinese banquet in Peking's Great Hall of the People. The Reagans instead chose the newly completed Great Wall Hotel. A 1,007-room glass-and-steel high-rise jointly built by Chinese and American developers, the hotel is a symbol of China's growing Western ties and its quest for modernization...
...fierce competition between American and Japanese companies, some longtime rivals are suddenly becoming partners. General Motors received final Government approval last month for a joint venture with Toyota to produce small cars in California. Last week the Japanese gained a major stake in another huge U.S. industry: steel. Pittsburgh's National Intergroup agreed to sell a 50% interest in its National Steel subsidiary to Nippon Kokan, Japan's second-largest steelmaker, for $292 million...
During her husband's term in the White House, Rosalynn Carter was often characterized as a "steel magnolia." In her autobiography, First Lady from Plains (Houghton Mifflin; $17.95), to be published early next month, she does little to defrost that decidedly cool image. By her own account, she is a tireless campaigner and a more cunning strategist than the 39th President. "I am much more political than Jimmy and was more concerned about popularity and winning re-election," she says. "Our most common argument centered on political timing...
Hart's Monday, meanwhile, publicly began at the Philadelphia docks for a 7:30 a.m. mingle with longshoremen. He flew off to Allentown and Bethlehem to stroll through a steel plant and hold a press conference, but engine problems kept him from leaving for Pittsburgh on time. While a pair of small Learjets were being hired, Hart felt obliged to caper around for photographers (he posed in a cockpit wearing dark glasses and pilot's cap) and to discuss the Democrats' alleged indulgence of black antiSemitism. At Pittsburgh's airport (four hours after Mondale had touched...
Mounted on stallions of steel, desert tribesmen fight...