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Historic visit
Nixon arrives in China
PEKING (AP) - Richard
Nixon, a symbol of the capitalist
world, came to Communist-ruled
China Monday with the expressed
hope that his discussions here
will help bring a new day to the
world.
The President’s visit, seven
months in the making, began
with a brief stop at Shanghai to
take on a Chinese navigator to
guide the Nixon plane to Peking
and summit talks with Premier
Chou En-lai stretching over the
next seven days.
At the least, these talks hold the
promise of better relations af
fecting the lives of a billion
people—the estimated 800 million
in China and 200 million in the
United States.
First visit
This is the first visit by an
incumbent U S. president to
China, and it raises a possibility
that 73-year-old Premier Chou
will visit Washington This would
be protocol, but nothing has been
announced about it.
As people gathered at the
Peking airport they could conjure
a scene that Chinese of the Han or
Ming dynasties might have called
pure magic: a foreign ruler
arriving in a machine that flies,
to confront other devices built to
bounce pictures of himself and
his wife off a man made moon
and deliver the images to homes
far across the sea on a Sunday
evening.
Not that modern China lacks
television or hasn’t seen 707 jet
plant's before. Today’s China
under Mao Tse-tung and Premier
Chou is ranked at the United
Nations as one of the world’s five
main powers, with a veto in the
Security Council. And a few days
ago Nixon’s secretary of defense
was talking about how far
China's missiles could travel with
nuclear warheads developed by
China's scientists, some trained
in the United States.
The President came to a China
which distrusts its big neigh
bors the Soviet Union, Japan
and India and supports in In
dochinu a cause which has cost
50,000 American lives Only last
week Chou said no solution in
Indochina was possible if Nixon
insisted on his eight-point plan
envisaging a U.S. withdrawal six
months alter agreement, plus the
resignation of Nguyen Van Thieu,
the South Vietnamese president,
a month before new elections
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Nixon has emphasized that he
does not expect his talks in
Peking will bring immediate
results in a wide area. An
nouncing last July that Peking
had invited him. he spoke of an
effort to bring about a "nor
malization" of the relations
severed when Mao and his
Communists took power almost
23 years ago
In leaving Washington the
President said China and the
United States have had and will
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have differences, then added:
“What we must do is find a way
to see that we can have our dif
ferences without being enemies
at war.”
Three months from now he
plans another summit session in
the Soviet Union—which has
troops on the Chinese border and,
since the days of Stalin, has split
with Mao Tse-tung over the
thrust of communism.
Bypassing Taiwan, the sea of
the Chinese Nationalist govern
ment which the United States has
backed for years, the President
and Mrs. Nixon flew to Shanghai
from Guam, where he had
remained overnight. Ac
companying them were several
of the President’s chief advisers,
including Henry Kissinger, who
laid the groundwork for the visit.
Temperatures were in the 30s
as people gathered near the
airport for the Peking arrival.
This city of seven million had a
calm, wintry pallor, with many
nearby irrigation canals frozen
over.
Soldiers guard route
Soldiers with sidearms were
stationed along the route from
Capital Airport into the city and
in the direction of the govern
ment guest house which will be
the President’s headquarters.
The airport-city route ran
alongside fields cultivated by the
farming communes which have
become the backbone of
agriculture in a nation that is
four-fifths rural.
No banners had been erected in
the city on the eve of the arrival,
nor were there editorials of
welcome. Anti-American slogans
remained in some areas. One
said- "We support the people of
Arab countries in their struggle
against U.S. imperialism and
Zionism.” Other slogans urged
continued support of "peace
loving countries” against U.S.
imperialism, as Peking for years
has described the American
outlook toward other nations.
But some bitter slogans had
been removed several days ago.
The Nixons will go back to
Shanghai for a day as they head
home next week. They also will
visit Hangchow. Peking is the
capital, Shanghai the nation's
main commercial center, and
Hangchow one of the nation's
showplaces. It may be the site of
a Nixon meeting with Chairman
Mao. but most of the talks are
expected to be with Premier
Chou, the man who runs the
government.
Banquet set
A banquet for the Nixons was
scheduled for Monday night.
Later in the week the First Lady
will go on several sight-seeing
trips while the President is
engaged in conferences.
The Shanghai-Peking leg of the
journey from Washington was
scheduled for less than two hours.
The trip from Guam to Shanghai
took four hours.
In getting to Guam, a U.S.
outpost in the Pacific, the
President crossed the in
ternational date line. In China he
was 13 hours ahead of
Washington time. Thus the
scheduled Peking arrival at 11:40
a m. Monday was equivalent to
10:40 p.m. Sunday, EST.
The President told an airport
crowd at Guam: “I would hope
that all of you here today would
join me in this prayer: that with
this trip to China a new day may
begin for the whole world.”
En route to Guam from Hawaii,
Nixon talked informally with four
reporters aboard his plane about
the conversations he will be
having with China’s leaders.
“The normal times are two
hours for plenary sessions but we
will leave time at the end and it
could go longer. We are leaving it
totally flexible. If we get into
productive talks we are perfectly
free to continue. I am prepared to
participate in the discussions as
long as our hosts want to par
ticipate in them.”
Nixon noted that he and China’s
leaders are strangers to each
other.
“Because of a lack of com
munications, we are a mystery to
them, as they are a mystery to
us,” he said.
He added that it might be
useful to discuss philosophical
attitudes and points of difference
and similarity.
Speaking of Chairman Mao and
Premier Chou, he observed: “If
you read what they have said and
written, they are men of a
philosophical turn of mind. They
are not just pragmatic day-to-day
leaders. They are people who
take the long view.”
Mao says in the Little Red Book
that has become dogma to the
Chinese: “Communists must
listen attentively to the views of
people outside the party and let
them have their say. If what they
say is right, we ought to welcome
it ... if it is wrong, we should let
them finish what they are saying
and then patiently explain things
to them.”
He said all that in another
context, but it may fit what will
happen this week.
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News Roundup
From AP Reports
RAWALPINDI, Pakistan — Police clashed with a crowd
of workers for the governing People’s party Sunday in
Peshawar, then went on strike and marched through the
city’s streets. Persons at the scene estimated the number of
marching policemen at 2,000. Newsmen there said marchers
smashed doors and windows at three police stations when
some officers refused to join the demonstration. The trouble
started at a political meeting held by retired Air Marshal
Asghar Khan, former commander of the Pakistan air force
and a critic of President Zulfikar Ali Bhutto. Witnesses said
People’s party workers tried to disrupt the meeting, and
police moved in on them with steel-tipped batons. The
Pakistan Press agency said at least seven People’s party
members were injured.
NEW YORK — Angela Davis, awaiting trial in California
on a murder charge, was unanimously elected Sunday as a
delegate to the Communist party convention, now in its third
day in Brooklyn. The motion was made by the party national
chairman, Henry Winston, who said he had met recently with
Miss Davis. Gus Hall, national secretary, had said Friday
that Miss Davis would be elected to the national committee of
the Communist party. Winston also announced at a news
conference that the Communist party would again begin to
issue application cards, membership cards and dues books
for its members and for new members.
MEXICO CITY — President Luis Echeverria says recent
political statements by priests—constitutionally forbidden
from participating in politics—are “within the wide range of
liberties in Mexico.” In a news conference Saturday,
Echeverria bypassed an opportunity to join critics of liberal
Roman Catholic priests who have called for reforms in
Mexico’s social and political structure. The Mexican con
stitution prohibits priests from voting, holding public office
or participating in politics in any way. Among priests calling
for change is the Most Rev. Manuel Talamas, bishop of
Juarez, who said recently that priests should have “the right
to vote and be voted for.”
AMMAN, Jordan — An Arab guerrilla who tried to hijack
a Jordanian jetliner appeared on television Sunday and said
he had instructions to blow up the plane either on landing in
Libya or in the air. He identified himself as Saleh Mahdi al
Mustawfi and claimed to be an Iraqi citizen. Jordanian
authorities had identified him Saturday as Jamil Abed
Hussein Ayoub and said he carried a Lebanese passport. The
hijack attempt, which came just after takeoff from Cairo
Saturday, was foiled by two security guards who bolted from
their seats and over powered Mustawfi as he brandished a
hand grenade.
LONDONDERRY, Northern Ireland — Three hundred
British troops battled rioters and exchanged fire with
guerrilla gunmen Sunday night. It was the worst flash of
violence in Londonderry since “Bloody Sunday” three weeks
ago, but no casualties were reported. Soldiers also clashed
twice with civilians from the neighboring Irish republic who
crossed into Northern Ireland. The civilians came to fill
craters blasted in cross-border roads during military
operations designed to reduce guerrilla infiltration. The
troubles erupted as this Protestant-dominated British
province embarked on a critical round of the struggle to end
three years of strife, and the Roman Catholic republic moved
to crack down on out law bands. The British government was
reported readying a new offer for political settlement.
HARRISBURG, Pa. — A prosecutor on special assign
ment from the Justice Department is scheduled to open the
government’s antiwar conspiracy case Monday against the
Rev. Philip Berrigan and six codefendants.
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