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...burst of wartime solidarity, the People's Republic of China once declared that its friendship with Viet Nam was as close as "lips and teeth." But after their common foe, the U.S., withdrew its troops from Southeast Asia in 1973, the toothy smiles between Peking and Hanoi gradually turned to frowns. Today, says a Chinese official, the relationship is one of "rifles to rifles and artillery to artillery." Nowhere is that hostility more evident than along the 800-mile border between the two countries. TIME Peking Bureau Chief David Aikman was among a group of Western journalists who made...
...would keep to identify bettors. One name recorded was "Mr. McGoo," a sometime pseudonym for Governor Brown when he placed bets, according to an official involved in the case. Brown, whose wealth is estimated at $30 million, concedes that he made wagers with Lambert. Brown also admits that he withdrew $1.3 million in cash during 1981 and 1982 from a Miami bank, much of it to cover gambling losses. Said he last week: "I spent some of it, saved some of it and had fun with some of it." Brown promised not to gamble any more during his remaining...
...Council on Foreign Relations considered 68 candidates, including Leslie Gelb, the national-security correspondent for the New York Times, and Stephen Rosenfeld, the Washington Post's deputy editorial-page editor. Both withdrew. The runner-up: James Chace, the magazine's managing editor since 1970. Said Winston Lord, president of the Council on Foreign Relations: "Hyland has outstanding experience, intellect and objectivity...
After the December slaughter, Washington retracted its planned $1.5 million in aid and The Netherlands withdrew its subsidy, which amounted to a fourth of Suriname's budget. Unemployment now runs at around 10%, and the country's esti mated foreign reserves of $120 million are falling rapidly. Moreover, as head of the country's angry exile community (180,000 in The Netherlands alone), former Prime Minister Henk Chin A Sen is mobilizing diplomatic support from his bases in The Netherlands and the U.S. Last week he published Horb's eyewitness account of the executions. Bouterse...
...issued a list of statements in which Syria had promised to get out of Lebanon as soon as the Israelis did. On Feb. 14, for example, Syrian Foreign Minister Abdel Halim Khaddam told his French counterpart, Claude Cheysson, that "Syria would withdraw its forces from Lebanon if the Israelis withdrew their troops." U.S. diplomats note that Syrian officials have repeatedly said the same thing to them in private...