age 8/The Battalion/Thursday, April 19, 1984
Reagan planning state visit to China
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Concessions on Taiwan not forseen
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United Press International
•: WASHINGTON — Secre-
jijry of State George Shultz said
Wednesday he does not expect
i'i esident Reagan to make con T
Issions on Taiwan during a
'■ate visit to China next week,
Respite pressure from Peking,
i: Shultz told reporters Reagan
i|ill abide by terms of the three
!->int communiques that have
'>en issued since President
1 ixon opened the door to for-
'
mal diplomatic relations in
1972.
“We’re not going there to ne
gotiate a new communique or in
any way to try to shift the
ground from the existing
agreements,” Shultz told re-
E orters. “Those agreements will
e honored by the United
States. The president has said
that before, and when the sub
ject comes up, I’m sure we’ll say
it again.”
Discussing Reagan’s upcom
ing trip — his first to a commu
nist country — Shultz dismissed
any expectation of substantial
progress in resolving differ
ences over U.S. arms sales to
Taiwan.
He suggested the significance
of the Reagan visit will be seal
ing and widening the U.S.- Sino
relationship. “The visit itself
will give real impetus to the
relationship ... and help move
the relationship forward in a
very constructive way,” he said.
Reagan leaves Thursday on
the first leg of a trip that will
give him almost a week in Cali
fornia, Hawaii and Guam be
fore his arrival in Peking. The
state visit will include stops in
Shanghai and Xian, the ancient
capital of China and now an ar
cheological site.
Shultz said Reagan’s trip “is
an important moment in this
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relationship” between the two
countries.
“President Nixon created an
opening to China. President
Carter brought about the nor
malization of our relationships
with China. Building on this bi-
f )artisan base. President Reagan
tas sought to make the
relationship stable and compre
hensive,” Shultz said.
While the expectation in
Washington and Peking is that
the visit will be cordial, the
Chinese have indicated they will
push Reagan on the issue of
Taiwan.
Early suspicions spawned by
Reagan’s longtime friendship
with Taiwan was eased with the
issuance of an August 1982
joint communique that com
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alists in Taipei. But Peking
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not met its obligations.
The Chinese also have
pushed Reagan to set a date for
ending all arms sales to Taiwan,
which amount to about $760
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sonal income of Americans rose
a modest 0.5 percent in March
and spending declined in major
areas, the Commerce Depart
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Economists said the -figures
are another sign that the econ
omy is slowing to a more mod
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many had feared was an infla
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year.
“Most Americans should find
these comfortable statistics,” the
Commerce Department’s chief
economist, Robert Ortner, said.
“They mean the economy is not
overheating and in fact is set
tling back to a more moderate
rate of expansion.”
Personal income, which in
cludes wages, rents, interest and
Social Security payments, rose
$13.9 billion in March to a sea
sonally adjusted annual rate of
$2.9 trillion.
This was the smallest
monthly rise since a 0.3 percent
increase last August. Income
rose a record 1.6 percent in Jan
uary and 0.7 percent in Feb
ruary.
Personal consumption ex
penditures — goods that Amer
icans buy — rose $9.7 billion in
March after a $23.7 billion de
cline in February. Most of the
increase went for higher utility
bills due to cold weather.
Purchases of durable goods,
a category that includes major
items such as cars and refrigera
tors, declined $3.9 billion,
largely due to a decline in auto
sales.
Sales of domesUcally py.p-
duced cars fell from aj^ ajfyjuql
rate of 8.5 million in Febnm
to a rate of 7.9 million in Maui
Sales of foreign-made can lid
steady at annual rates ofi
million in both months.
Purchases of non-duntl
goods declined $4.5 billion«
decreases virtually across li
board.
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economic forecasting firm,si
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recovery — not an overhead
boom year.
Even with the slowdon
Ortner said, the first tlir«
months of this year look ver
good. 1 ncome was up 3.2 pe
cent over the previous quarie
That is a compound annuals
of 13.2 pertenp
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