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From: mangoe@umcp-cs.UUCP (Charley Wingate)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: China is more of an ally than New Zealand?
Message-ID: <5174@umcp-cs.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 24-Apr-85 23:42:11 EST
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In article <574@abnji.UUCP> nyssa@abnji.UUCP (nyssa of traken) writes:

>If I may correct you, I should like to point out that my breath
>is not odored with Kiwi, rather ginger.  Also, I quote from the Guardian:
>
>_Naval deal with Washington likely to anger New Zealand_
>
>CHINA WINS US PLEDGE TO BAN VISITS BY NUCLEAR SHIPS
>
>From Mary-Louise O'Callaghan in Peking
>
>   The US is giving to China the non-nuclear guarantee on all ships 
>visiting Chinese ports that it has refused to give to New Zealand, according
>to the General Secretary of the Communist Party, Mr. Hu Yaobang.
>
>Mr. Hu said that China supported New Zealand's non-nuclear stance and
>disclosed that China had asked and received assurances from the US that
>any US ships visiting Chinese ports would be conventional warships.

Hail, O Ginger Breath.  One can see from the article that the Chinese claim
is false, and this was confirmed in the _Wash. Post_.  The U.S. agreed to
send conventionally POWERED ships.  Nothing was said about armament.

Charley Wingate  umcp-cs!mangoe

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