UPI-31

(CHINA)

GARDEN CIY, N.Y. -- NEWSPAPER PUBLISHER WILLIAM ATTWOOD, WHO DINED WITH CHOU EN-LAI ON JUNE 21, REPORTED TODAY THAT THE COMMUNIST CHINESE PREMIER PUT CONDITIONS ON ANY PROSPECTIVE VISIT TO PEKING BY PRESIDENT NIXON.

ATTWOOD, IN A COPYRIGHT STORY IN NEWSDAY, SAID CHOU TOLD HIM NIXON OR HIS EMISSARY WOULD BE WELCOME TO CHINA BUT ONLY ON THE CONDITION IT WAS UNDERSTOOD "UNDER WHAT CIRCUMSTANCES THE VISIT WOULD BE MADE."

HE QUOTED CHOU AS SAYING: "NORMALIZING DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS BETWEEN CHINA AND THE UNITED STATES DEPENDS ON YOUR WITHDRAWING TROOPS FROM TAIWAN (FORMOSA) AND RECOGNIZING THAT THE FUTURE STATUS OF THIS OFFSHORE ISLAND IS AN INTERNAL AFFAIR OF THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA.

"IT HAS ALWAYS BEEN A PROVINCE OF CHINA AND WAS RECOGNIZED BY PRESIDENT TRUMAN WHEN HE ADMITTED IT WAS AN INTERNAL CHINESE PROBLEM ..."

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Dear Liver:

I should have had the courtesy to alert you to the fact I've gone on the dry for a spell. Maybe for as long as two ghastly weeks. These past three or four days, nine hours and six minutes must have caused you many anxious moments, wondering if I was still alive, what with nothing of any interest trickling down your way. Forgive me, dear old friend and ally.

Blame your neglect on my wife.

A few days ago, she went to her couturier, fellow named Klein whose salon is on 14th Street, to pick up a little number to wear at our upcoming wedding anniversary. He didn't have her size in that particular gown.

When she returned home, in tears, the following dialogue took place:

"We're going on a diet," she said. Just like that.

"We?"

"Yes. We're going on the Stillman Diet."

"Stillman's? That gym closed right after the Louis-Conn fight, I think."

"Stillman's diet, not gym. The diet is really simple. We eat meat, chicken, fish, soft or hardboiled eggs, and cottage cheese."

"Hey, that's not too bad for an appetizer. What does this fellow allow you to have for dinner?"

"That's the whole day, dope. And we won't forget the eight glasses of water, will we?"

"Certainly not! I prefer my scotch with soda, but what the hell? I'll just rough it for the duration."

"No booze."

"I must be losing my hearing, or my mind. Did you say 'no booze?'"

"No booze."

"What kind of a diet is that! Oh, well, I'll just take it easy with dry sherry."

"Dry sherry? You? That would be like putting a Bandaid on a leper."

"That does it! I'll show you I've got guts."

"You can say that again."

"Okay, I'll go dry. It won't kill me."

Well, dear old liver, that's how it happened. If you think you're having a tough time, how about me? Remember all those cocktail parties I used to take you to? And the fun we had? They're still being given, only it seems like more relentlessly. But they seem to have changed. I don't re-

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MCCLOSKEY

HANOVER, N.H. (AP)-REP. PAUL MCCLOSKEY JR., R-CALIF., SAID TODAY PRESIDENT NIXON'S ANNOUNCED TRIP TO MAINLAND CHINA WOULD NOT AFFECT HIS DECISION TO SEEK THE GOP PRESIDENTIAL NOMINATION IN 1972. "THIS TRIP DOES NOT CHANGE THE ISSUES, HE SAID.

MCCLOSKEY, IN OPENING HIS PRIMARY CAMPAIGN IN NEW HAMPSHIRE AND VERMONT, MET HERE WITH BACKERS. LATER IN THE DAY HE WAS TO CAMPAIGN IN RANDOLPH, VT., WHICH HOLDS A LOCAL PRESIDENTIAL PREFERENCE PRIMARY NEXT MARCH.

MCCLOSKEY SAID IN HIS VIEW ALL THE PRESIDENT'S ANNOUNCEMENT SHOWED WAS THAT THE COUNTRY WAS NOW WILLING TO SEND A CHIEF EXECUTIVE TO THE COMMUNIST NATION.

"I DO NOT BELIEVE GOING TO CHINA LESSENS AT ALL THE REALITIES OF VIETNAM," HE SAID. "WE ARE WAGING AN ALL-OUT AIR WAR IN THREE SMALL SOUTHEAST ASIAN COUNTRIES," HE SAID.

"THE TRIP DOES NOT CHANGE THE ISSUES. THE ANNOUNCEMENT WAS THE SAME TYPE OF CONCEPT OF SO MUCH OF WHAT GOVERNMENT IS TODAY.

"WHAT NEED WAS THERE FOR SECRECY ATTENDANT ON SUCH AN ANNOUNCEMENT?" HE ASKED.

THE ISSUES, HE SAID, ARE STILL VIETNAM SECRECY IN GOVERNMENT AND THE ECONOMY.