FOR THF RECORD
You’ve come a long way, baby: “U.S. imperialism is the Number One enemy of world peace. … At present, the U.S. imperialists and their policies are using every means to cover up their all too evident crimes. . . . Long live the great unity of the Socialist camp headed by the Soviet Union.”—Teng Hsiao-ping, in May 24, 1960 Peking Review. . . . John Glenn, member of important Senate Foreign Relations Committee, has promised to make security of Taiwan “immediate guiding principle” of U.S. dealings with China, prompting Carter threat to veto legislation presented to me by Congress that would be contradictory or that would violate the agreements” concluded with Peking. … In honor of Teng visit, Young Americans for Freedom has launched a campaign to “Welcome a Tyrant”: “Taxpayers’ money is being used to welcome and honor a tyrant who runs the dictatorship with the worst human rights record in the history of the world.” . . . Asked by Washington Post how he felt about Nixon’s presence at the White House gala for Teng, Sen. Howard Baker (R., Tenn.) said, “It’s time Richard Nixon was recognized as a former President of the United States.” Ted Kennedy: “Well, I, I, I’m, uh, I think he’s welcome here.” . . . Unwelcome and uninvited, Albanian ruler Enver Hoxha has just published a 460-page book attacking USSR, U.S., and, most especially, China. At the eighth Chinese Communist Party congress in 1956, Hoxha writes, U.S. imperialism was regarded as the main threat. At the ninth congress in 1969, U.S. imperialism and “any Soviet social imperialism were regarded as equal dangers, while the tenth congress in 1973 proclaimed Soviet social imperialism as the main enemy. “With such waverings,” Hoxha concludes, “it is not impossible that a later congress could come out in support of Soviet social imperialism and proclaim U.S. imperialism as the main enemy.”
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