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From: nyssa@abnji.UUCP (nyssa of traken)
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Subject: Re: China is more of an ally than New Zealand?
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Date: Fri, 19-Apr-85 08:35:16 EST
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Posted: Fri Apr 19 08:35:16 1985
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>Mainland China did indeed say what you quoted.  THEY announced it,
>we didn't.  The State Department immediately said "Hey!   We didn't
>say that!"
>
>(Or so says the Star Ledger, Guardian indeed.)

Would the US government admit that they would give such a guarantee
to China and not New Zealand?  Pretty unpolitic of them, but equally
unpolitic of the US to blow a friendly mission to China because of
the lack of such a guarantee.  Answer: agree to the guarantee without
public mention.  (Why China announced it, I don't know.  Perhaps
to quell possible hostility to a US visit?)

I tend to trust the Guardian more than the Star Ledger.
-- 
James C Armstrong, Jnr.   ihnp4!abnji!nyssa

No, thank you.  Guns can seriously damage your health, you know!