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Longtime editor Genevieve Young left legacy in publishing

This 2018 photo released by the Gordon Parks Foundation shows Genevieve Young, a publishing editor and wife of photographer and filmmaker Gordon Parks. She was a publishing editor with a long and diverse legacy. (Gordon Parks Foundation via AP)NEW YORK – Genevieve Young was a publishing editor with a long and diverse legacy. She also edited the groundbreaking photographer and filmmaker Gordon Parks, married him in the 1970s and later helped oversee his estate. Young was Park's editor at Harper.

George Shultz wasn't 'afraid to struggle against the odds'

(AP Photo/Barry Thumma, File)WASHINGTON – Time was running out when Secretary of State George P. Shultz returned home in April 1988 after flying 16,000 miles in a failed mission to persuade Arabs and Israelis to negotiate their differences. AdA lifelong Republican, Shultz negotiated the first-ever treaty with the Soviet Union to reduce the size of their ground-based nuclear arsenals. The president would not yield, and Reagan and Shultz returned to the United States disappointed but determined to pursue an accord. Although Shultz objected, Reagan went ahead with the deal and millions of dollars from Iran went to right-wing Contra guerrillas in Nicaragua. But only a few years later, Reagan and Shultz, considered Israel’s best friends, had opened the door to Palestinian legitimacy and possibly a Palestinian state on land held by Israel.

Scowcroft, national security adviser to 2 presidents, dies

Playing a prominent role in American foreign policy, Scowcroft served as national security adviser to Presidents Gerald Ford and George H.W. Bush, the only national security adviser to two different administrations. He served as national security adviser to Bush, by then a close friend, during the four years of the Bush administration, 1989-93. A year later he became deputy assistant for national security under Henry Kissinger, Nixons national security adviser. He accepted a return engagement as national security adviser when he realized he would be at the presidents side instead of running the massive bureaucracy at the Defense Department.

Henry Kissinger told White House he talked to Xi about Trump, Kudlow says

China's President Xi Jinping (centre R) and former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger (centre L) walk to a meeting with delegates from the 2019 New Economy Forum at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on November 22, 2019. Henry Kissinger met in China with President Xi Jinping, and the details of his conversations were passed onto President Donald Trump, White House economic advisor Larry Kudlow told CNBC on Wednesday. Kudlow told CNBC that Kissinger, who served in senior roles under Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford, met with Xi "twice" during a weeklong trip to China, along with "other big shots." "President Trump made it very clear that we favor freedom and democracy and a peaceful solution in Hong Kong, and that we oppose, of course, the maltreatment of the Muslims and the Uighurs." Kissinger delivered his message from Xi during a visit to the White House two weeks ago, Kudlow said.

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China's Xi says Beijing wants a trade deal but is not afraid to 'fight back'

Chinese President Xi Jinping said Friday that Beijing wants to work for a trade deal with the United States but is not afraid to "fight back." Reinforcing the upbeat tone adopted by China in recent days, Xi told a visiting U.S. business delegation that China holds a 'positive attitude' toward the trade talks. "As we always said we don't want to start the trade war but we are not afraid," Xi said. "We want to work for a Phase 1 agreement on the basis of mutual respect and equality," Xi told the group. During the meeting at Beijing's ornate Great Hall of the People, Xi reiterated to the group China's stance that a deal requires "mutual respect and equality."

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Fallout from US-China trade conflict could be 'even worse' than WWI, Kissinger says

China is a major economic country, and so are we. "China is a major economic country, and so are we. "Therefore, if conflict is permitted to develop unconstrained, the outcome could be even worse than it was in Europe," he said, referring to World War I. "So China will be a big part of the global financial picture in decades to come." "For the IMF, it is critical that we can have the financial strength to serve the center of the global financial safety net," IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva said.

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