OUT OF POWER IN U.S., REPUBLICANS STILL POPULAR IN CHINA

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WASHINGTON POST
29 SE tIDMBER 1977
wa3h A on Post s azr writer Ford's' 1976 campaign.
..'PEKING, Sept.23-The Chinese are Bush, Burch and Baker arrived here:
preparing to celebrate theirs' National ?late Sunday in a: 13.person group that;.
Day with so aiattY Prominent :Auieri ` also; included -.85-y ear old broadcaster;
Lowell Thomas, who is determined to'
can Republicans on-hank liat TYeu An cc his
second honeymoon in n
is scheduled toy
Men, Square looks ar=little like? the bet', where the party,;-,
For, the' last two nights;{; thousands ' Rogers: who was 1 st here with for=
of marchers carrying red ;_banners mer-President Nix-of i -t' 4 on :the- historic=.
have jammed the squares,+whtle`spot journey iu_ 1972 arrived ?:todar.from=
lights played patterns in.the sky, all , :? Tokya; on' a 'trip thaVis= part. business
in rehearsal' for the- celebration'. Sung. and part.."tourism. Thursday, _ another:.
day of China's-success in surmounting" prominent- Republican, the ..former.-
the earthquake-and political tkpheav Pennsylvania governor" and` Ambassaa-
als of the?past yearcr sv ,.7 dor to '? the-.United: Nations Willis
Watching. the ma-live spectacle' as. W Scranton,: is due- to join Rogers
'~
guests of-:the- government. are :- former ; TonightRogers; Bush, Burch., and
Secretary of State. %Tjlliam-'P Rogers Baker gave a,. banquetfor their Chi
George- Bush' tand=Dean:-Burch, both -' nese host-group;- headed by-Hao Teh-
former Republican :notionarrchairmer thing, the president ofr':the : Chinese=
and officials- of the Nixon and- Ford Peoples; Institute of Foreign. Affairsi..
administrations, and James E aked 4 a Iiao's toast was so studded with refer.
ences to the "statesmanshiof Nixon;
and Rogers that it .,seemed almost, an_
~,,.
z life, so when I go to- high -altitudes, I
feel like I'm-going home.':' :'.--:-.Y .
Thomas noted that he and his. bride,
Mananne,1had -traveled to the 17,500
foot level'on Mt, Everest: on their re-:
cent honeymoon, and-he said, ` Iow
I'm going to take her on. a second hon-'z
eymoon to Tibet."':'... Y , ~=
He and'other members of the-Bush
party. are-scheduled to learn . Thursday.;
whether they have; passed their, physi
-`',cal exams"forathe 'trip to Lhasa '-the'
Tibetan capital..:
-`:Bush;'who wasthe head of the U.S: s
-Liaison office in .'Peking for 14 months i
in 1974, and 1975,- was4 invited back : by=
the :Chinese- The group he.has assem-
bled includes Burch, .the 1964 Republl
can;: national chairman and, ..later,
-:.,,chairman of the: Federal, Communi.ca
_tion.s . Commission'.,'and : counselor to...
Nixon'and Ford,'and 'Baker,.the'Hous-
ton attorney .who_ shifted from under- '
secretary of commerce to. the~top spot,
r,' tary-
,k?and .Secre a. J of, State _Cyrusv Vance,.
;~ Chinese ofcil " Y'nr , '_;
s =But the- sense that Republicans still:.
j_' --banquet. was provided. by. Thomas,. they I4 last' November's' election results;.:: is
`'retired~brbadcaster;.who;iswaging a :; heightened`:by,theefactthat.?Leonard;
not so-subtle war.of wills wit1= Chinese Woodcoek,# the :former: Unrte&Sutra
g .. offrcral 'over his desire to return ta_7 Workers-president who- was named by'
Tibet:' Carter to hea-the lrarson office, rs ab.
p sent frons China this week 1n_xa trip to.
? of a few sweeksmwandesperately to ti the United States ?~ ~' ,,- ;~;,
go. back.rto'. Tibet ':whose cause he Bush received as tinusuallg-%,varnr:
c : `championed=#at'the trine the Chinese= reception, not dust from Chinese offs-
tookover-the-country`