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The Daily News i Longview, Washington I Tuesday, July 13, 1971 China Diary: No. 2 Americans draw curious crowds in quaint Peking (Newsday Publisher William Attwood, one of the first American journalists allowed behind the Bamboo Curtain, has just returned from 17 days in China.) The Wwld Iceland's leftist regime agrees GIs must go port after a long journey up from Shanghai long because Chinese planes don't take off unless weather conditions are just right. So we'd sat and been stared at and talked with a homesick African for two hours before boarding Ilyu-shin-18 flight to the capital. (Announcements are now made in English as well as Chinese, but the sounds were hardly distinguishable, so we just followed the crowd. In Peking we drank jasmine-flavored tea dispensed free by smiling girls in armv uniforms the lounge was full of young soldiers of both sexes while Mr.

Chu took our baggage stubs and passports and finally led us to an old Polish cab loaded with all our stuff. It was comforting to know that we were "officially" here and in good hands. From experience we knew that there's no safer place than in Aommunist country for a foreigner who's "in order" with the authorities and no more dangerous place for one who isn't. It's a fast 20-mile ride from the airport to the inner city along a two-lane tree-shaded concrete highway fast because there's nothing in the way except for an occasional bus or tractor, a horse-drawn farm wagon, a procession of bicycles, or a column of marching youths shouldering shovels and headed for the fields. Nice green country: Rice paddies, orchards, wheat fields, neat clusters of farm buildings every square yard cultivated.

Then, suddenly, the city: At first, new blocks of apartments plastered with slogans and Mao-quotes, then down the broad tree-lined avenues and around a corner to the Hsin Chiao. By the end of the day, I'd contacted Prince Sihanouk jf Cambodia and the Chinese Foreign Ministry, -jwhere we were welcomed and told about press cards and cable rates by two crisp but affable officials have no hatred of Americans, nor of you. By the way, what is Bill Moyers doing now? I've been reading his Over big mugs of tea (if you're sociable you can drown in tea in China), we told them what he hoped to see and do, and they took notes. "We'll see you have a busy and profitable time while you're here," they assured us as we walked out of the foreign ministry. They certainly did.

By WILLIAM ATTWOOD The Times-Post Service The Hsin Chiao Hotel is the spot most transient foreigners end up in Peking. It doesn't have wall-to-wall carpeting or color TV or air-conditioning (just a thermometer reminding you your room temperature is a steady 85-90) but it does have a kind of tacky charm and whimsical efficiency that ought to be preserved in our increasingly Hiltonized world. Along with the clientele. My wife, Sim, and I spent two weeks there, muchof the time awake. The stifling heat, the jet lag and the' interminable Slavic (or Romanian) beer-and-card parties down the hall made it hard to doze off; the all-night excavations across the street (air raid shelters, we were told) made it hard to stay asleep, and the sudden bugles, organized calisthenics, honking buses and tinkling bicycles (Peking gets up early) had the whole place astir by 5 a.m.

But how can you complain when a load of laundry comes back clean the same day (for 40 cents); when a guy repairs your phone before you know it's out of order; when room service, telegrams and messages all are delivered fast, and when your weekly bill all meals included comes to $25? It's cheaper than staying home. The Hsin Chiao has two dining-rooms a Chinese one on the ground floor, where we always ate too much and too well for about a dollar, and a "Western" one on the top floor where you would get a breakfast of toast, eggs, tea, yogurt and canned pineapple. Downstairs, between the 15-foot Mao statue in the lobby and the 30-foot Mao portrait on the mezzanine stairs, a poster told the Chinese-room diners that "The East Wind is prevailing over the West Wind," while upstairs the bleary-eyed breakfast trade was exhorted "to unite and win still greater victories." The regulars had their own tables the Japanese trade delegates who always brought their own Nescafe, Lipton teabags, condiments and soy sauce; the dour Eastern European techni-cianswho often started the muggy days with quarts of good cold Beijing beer; the stout and sad-eyed Pakistanis with their bored and squirming children; the longhaired Scandinavian youths with their Mao buttons and little red books of his quotations; the convivial East and West German news agency reporters (no Berlin Wall here); the shy Zambian and genial Irishmen, the lonely young Canadian diplomats (puritanical Peking, is no place for a bachelor, especially if you appreciate the delicate beauty of Chinese girls) and we Americans, who provided the regulars with a fresh topic of conversation. But whatever curiosity we evoked at the Hsin Chiao was nothing to the sensation we created outdoors. We did a lot of unsupervised walking around town, and the way people stared made us feel like a couple of bright green Martians three eyes, webbed feet, antennae and all strolling up Fifth Avenue.

It's been a long time since most Chinese have been foreigners (many never have) and the mere fact we wore bright clothes made us conspicuous. (In China, only small children do.) But the stares and the crowds that gathered when we passed were never hostile, just curious, like the little kids who shyly reached out to touch our pale and (to them) hairy skin. Back to the hotel. In the lobby the only man who understood English was Mr. Chu, the representative of the China Travel Service.

Bless Mr. Chu. He bought our tickets, found us interpreters, knew the right phone numbers, showed us where the postcards and the glue pot were (Chinese stamps aren't adhesive), summoned and instructed taxi drivers, presided over the abacus-wielding Bank of China money-changers and even taught me how to get an outside line from the operator. (Though it was much later that I learned I'd been mispronouncing "Wei-shen" so that it came out meaning "danger," but it worked anyway. It was Mr.

Chu who met us at the Peking Air of the Liberal Left party. Johannesson leads the Progressive party. It is likely that the Cabinet will be made up of three Progressives, two Communists and two Liberal Left. The last governing coalition of Independents and Social Democrats pursued a liberal, middle-of-the-road policy. It was defeated in the June 13 elections after nearly 12 years in power.

B.C. pearl theft trial date is set VANCOUVER, B.C. (AP)- A trial date of Oct. 18 was set Monday for two men accused of having $750,000 worth of stolen pearls in their possession. Eugene Killam, 30, and Barry Erhl, 32, were arrested last Feb.

6. The pearls were found by police when they raided a downtown hotel. The Crown claims the pearls were stolen from a transfer truck in Seattle in December, 1969, while they were being taken off a flight from Japan at Seattle-Tacoma Airport. Van driver Carlyle J. Aicher was shot and killed in the hijacking.

REYKJAVIK, Iceland (AP) All parties in Iceland's incoming leftist government are reported agreed that the NATO base at Keflavik must be closed and that its 3,000 American servicemen must go, probably within four years. The new coalition to govern this island republic in the North Atlantic appears convinced that Iceland should remain a member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, but that foreign servicemen should not be stationed here during peacetime. The base 30 miles southwest of Reykjavik, and the stationing of American naval personnel there are authorized by a U.S.-Icelandic defense pact under NATO auspices. The base has been operating since 1951. Located nearly halfway between New York and Moscow, it tracks Soviet plane and ship movements in the North Atlantic.

The Russians have been pressuring the Icelandic Government for some time to pull out of NATO, or at least to close the base. The new coalition under Premier-Elect Olafur Johannesson controls 32 of the parliament's 60 seats, including 17 Progressives, 10 members of the Communist People's Alliance and five We Deliver We Demonstrate ssaa Si 15,000 Americans invade London for ABA convention I SCHEDULED MAINTENANCE the key to an attractive and successful business For the FINEST in Janitorial Supplies The hotel opened a new restaurant Monday, and mailroom workers and telex operators have been added. Expected to spend at least $2.5 million during their one-week stay, the Americans are arriving in dozens of chartered flights from across America. Six hundred delegates and their families, including U.S. Atty.

Gen. John N. Mitchell and his wife Martha, disembark tonight at Southampton from the liner Queen Elizabeth 2. American idioms like "last name" instead of the British "surname," and "first floor" instead of the British "ground floor." "Headwaiters have been advised which brands of Scotch Americans prefer," says Mike Holland, the hotel's front office and reservations manager. "We've been planning for this for eight years." ABA delegates and their families will occupy 600 of the hotel's 816 beds.

LONDON (AP) Fifteen thousand Americans are descending on London for "the biggest American peacetime invasion anywhere" the second half of the American Bar Association's annual convention, Lawyers, wives and children are pouring into 75 hotels booked years in advance. The week-long meeting opens Wednesday, continuing the ABA's 94th annual meeting that began in New York July 1. Hotels are stocking up on such things i. -i i i Paper And Maintenance Supply to. Phone 423-3500 LONGVIEW 1064-1 2th Ave.

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While judges from Florida and Idaho ask a miniskirted tourist guide which pubs to visit, ladies called "English Roses" answer their wives' questions about what to wear at a Buckingham Palace garden party. When garden partying with the queen, the English Roses advise, wear hats and gloves and never pants suits. The staff at Grosvenor House has been specially trained to understand SALT session held HELSINKI, Finland (AP) U.S.. Soviet negotiators met for an hour and 45 minutes today in the second meeting of the new round of strategic arms limitation talks SALT and conferences sources said the atmosphere was serious and constructive. Disease killing B.C.

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