SCOOP & CHOU - LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT
Rosenberg, Bernard
On July 9, 1974, Senator Henry M. Jackson, known affectionately but until then unaccountably as Scoop, finally justified his sobriquet. Scoop-watchers realized then that their man might be more...
...Well, the People's Republic vowed that it would keep supplies flowing to North Vietnam...
...A pretty good record of reliability all around...
...The thing was hardly credible...
...If you could believe your eyes, George Meany's favorite candidate had so far strayed from his predictable pattern as to have made sensational news...
...So, for that matter, do we in South Vietnam...
...Now many of us tried as children to dig our way to China...
...As well believe: J. Paul Getty Bites the Running Dogs of Capitalism...
...But dogged readers caught the headline: Closer China Ties Urged By Jackson...
...Scoop-watchers realized then that their man might be more than the deadwood of which most presidential timber is made...
...But how clever of the Chinese to notice that Soviet policy is as expansionist as their own...
...Peking has not reneged on that pledge—which it honors to this day...
...The New York Times tucked it away on page 12...
...He indicated his agreement with the Chinese perception that the nature of Soviet policy is `expansionist and unreliable,' and directed in part at the encirclement of China...
...Scoop discovered that "there are many areas in which American interests parallel those of the Chinese...
...This time he tidied up his view in a signed Op-Ed article for the same paper of national record...
...An unexceptional judgment...
...What about "unreliable...
...Take it easy, Scoop...
...Prospective President, before you appoint Paul Sweezy to your shadow cabinet...
...The epithets are neither novel nor inappropriate...
...You see, Scoop's been on the go...
...80 million...
...Is this an area where American interests parallel those of the Chinese...
...And not idly either...
...If Scoop doubts this perception • let him ask the Dalai Lama or Indira Gandhi or his good friend, President Thieu...
...Russia, yes...
...Anyhow, China is busy combating that "part" of Soviet policy (for any other power it would be a full-time job) directed at its encirclement...
...478 COMMENTS AND OPINIONS...
...Meanwhile, business prospects look fine: It should be easy to grant good trading terms to China, the Senator said, because the problem of Chinese desiring to leave to join families is not large...
...Must we remind him that the U.S...
...This might be sabotage by Jib-lab typesetters, if not by David Binder, the correspondent under whose by-line COMMENTS AND OPINIONS the story appeared...
...And, fair's fair, so does the U.S.S.R...
...He had 15 hours of conversation with two perspicacious functionaries, the hitherto neglected Deputies, Teng Hsiao-ping and Chiao Kuan-hua, as well as the ailing Premier himself...
...Closer China ties...
...saw no other way to prevent "a billion Chinese" from toppling all our dominoes...
...Urged by Jackson...
...No sir, nor with the Arab terrorists...
...China, no...
...Not having given us their word, they are perfectly situated never to break it...
...Ah, but Mao's is best, for, quoth the Senator, "The Chinese have not broken their word with us...
...or for suppressing freedom...
...Nor would it have been half so easily arrived at without a junket around the world...
...They got on swimmingly...
...Tell us, Mr...
...And more...
...He said he knew of only 80 Chinese in this predicament, although "there will be a lot more...
...How many more, Scoop...
...Our offspring will get there with spades before Russia completes its little encirclement...
...Who can fault them for exploding H bombs in the air (did they promise not to...
...80,000...
...Has the American Superhawk forgotten so soon why it was "necessary" to spend an eternity in Indochina...
...Mao has declared China could spare at least that many in a nuclear holocaust...
...But true it was...
...Another piece of media mischief...
...Heaven knows, there was reason to be skeptical...
...Our Senator from Boeing and Washington, in his 63rd year, made it all the way to China, formerly Red China, now a colorless land, indeed the People's Republic as Scoop handsomely recognized it to be in another historic first on July 28...
...We have been informed twice over now that America's most intransigent anti-Communist spent six consecutive days in the Peasants' Paradise...
...In fact, he's running...
Vol. 21 • September 1974 • No. 4
