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TOLD ME THAT HE HAD TO WORK ONE DAY A WEEK IN A FACTORY, BUT TEXT HE SPENT MOST OF HIS TIME AT HOME WHERE, AMONG OTHER THINGS, HE STUDIED JAPANESE. AFTER THE FALL OF THE GANG OF FOUR HE BECAME DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF THE FOREIGN AFFAIRS OFFICE AND CONCURRENTLY DIRECTOR OF THE RE-ESTABLISHED INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL STUDIES. WHEN THE VICE MAYOR WHO WAS NOMINALLY THE HEAD OF THE FAO STEPPED DOWN FROM THAT POST, LI BECAME DIRECTOR OF THE FAO AND GAVE UP HIS POSITION. WITH THE INSTITUTE. HE NEVERTHELESS RETAINS A STRONG INTEREST IN INTERNATIONAL' AFFAIRS ́ AND THE INSTITUTE.
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LI HAS TRAVELLED WIDELY, FIRST AS A STUDENT, THEN IN THE N FIFTIES TO VARIOUS PEACE MOVEMENT CONFERENCES IN EUROPE AND JAPAN, AND MOST RECENTLY AS DIRECTOR OF THE FAO. HE HAS BEEN TO THE UNITED STATES' IN CONNECTION WITH A UN-SPONSORED CONFERENCE ON URBAN PROBLEMS OF LARGE CITIES, AND LAST YEAR HE VISITED GERMANY WHERE HE ARRANGED FOR A. NORTH-SOUTH CONFERENCE TO BE HELD IN SHANGHAI, WITH GERMANY'S FRIEDRICH EBERT INSTITUTE
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DELEGATE TO THE NPC ON SEVERAL OCCASIONS AND HE WAS NAM DA DELEGATE TO THE TWELFTH COMMUNITY PARTY CONGRESS. HE MAY. THEREFORE BE A RARITY--A CHRISTIAN COMMUNIST PARTY MEMBER. HE HAS ́A DEEP INTEREST IN THE UNITED STATES AND HAS HAPPILY ACCEPTED BOOKS WE HAVE LEFT HIM ON VARIOUS SOCIAL ISSUES. I FIND HIM SOMEWHAT AMBIVALENT IN HIS FEELINGS TOWARD THE U.S., HOWEVER, AND HE FREQUENTLY ALLUDES TO THE PROBLEMS IN OUR RELATIONSHIP. HE HAS SAID ON SEVERAL OCCASTIONS THAT HE FEELS WE ARE SLIPPING TOWARD THE SAME MISTAKES MADE IN THE LATE FORTIES, A PERIOD WHICH SEEMS TO HAVE INFLUENCED HIM CONSIDERABLY. I HAVE REFUTED THESE ASSERTIONS, BUT WITHOUT MUCH EFFECT.
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BOTH LI AND HIS WIFE, WHO WAS WITH HIM AT YALE, SPEAK FLUENT ENGLISH. THEY ARE VERY COMFORTABLE PEOPLE TO BE
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BACKGROUND. HE HAS TOLD ME THAT HIS NATIVE PLACE IS NINGBO, AND IN HIS EARLY YEARS HE ASPIRED TO PERFORM IN PEKING. OPERA ASSUMING HE DOES IN FACT COME TO HONG KONG, HE SHOULD BE A GOOD CONTACT. HE ALREADY KNOWS THE NAME": OF CONSUL GENERAL LEVIN, NOTING THAT HIS NAME AND LEVIN'S WERE IDENTICAL EXCEPT THAT THE MIDDLE CHARACTER WAS MISSING. ANDERSON
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