DATE: Friday, October 24, 1997              TAG: 9710240744

SECTION: FRONT                   PAGE: A4   EDITION: FINAL 

TYPE: Focus 

SOURCE: BY RONE TEMPEST, LOS ANGELES TIMES 

DATELINE: BEIJING                           LENGTH:   42 lines

FOCUS: U.S.- CHINESE "RECONCILIATION" NEXT WEEK BRINGS THE FIRST U.S.-CHINESE SUMMIT SINCE THE 1989 CRACKDOWN ON PRO-DEMOCRACY DEMONSTRATORS IN TIANANMEN SQUARE. IT IS BEING BILLED AS A RECONCILIATION SUMMIT, BUT A WIDE ARRAY OF IRRITANTS COULD COMPLICATE THE MEETING.

MEMO: Locally

Chinese President Jiang Zemin's weeklong stay in the United States will

include a day of sightseeing Tuesday in Colonial Williamsburg.

[Complete text of this story can be found on the microfilm for this

date.] ILLUSTRATION: Associated Press

File photos

THE UNITED STATES AND CHINA

1972: President Richard Nixon visits China, and the United States

recognizes the Communist government.

1976: Mao Tse-tung, founder of the People's Republic of China,

dies after 27 years as head of the Communist Party, sparking a

struggle for succession.

1978: After emerging as Mao's successor, reform advocate Deng

Xiaoping announces the creation of ``special economic zones'' where

foreign investors can set up factories, the first of many reforms

that bring China into the international trading system.

1979: Under President Jimmy Carter, the United States resumes

full diplomatic relations with China and breaks ties with Taiwan.

1989: Pro-democracy protests in Tiananmen Square in Beijing are

brutally suppressed by Deng.

1997: Deng dies. Jiang Zemin, his handpicked successor, takes

over as first among equals.

SOURCE: CQ Researcher. Compiled by Virginian-Pilot News Library.

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