Word: ang
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Outside Manila's Malacañang Palace last week, artificial Christmas trees constructed of wire loops draped with red and white paper streamers overshadowed the surrounding palms. The only signs of the martial law imposed on the country last September were a few added sentries. Inside the palace, a gilded, 20-ft. artificial tree, adorned with mother-of-pearl ornaments, stood in the great chandeliered reception hall. In contrast, the office of Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos was almost austere. Marcos last week talked with TIME Correspondent Roy Rowan, who sent this report...
...ang Wen-sheng, Interpreter...
...known to her American friends, grew up and went to high school in New York City. Last year she served as Edgar Snow's interpreter during his visit to China, and was also a member of the Chinese delegation to the U.N.-along with her father, T'ang Ming-ch'ao, who served as deputy representative...
...understanding of Mao Tse-tung's present state-psychological or otherwise-is possible without some knowledge of the Ch'ang Cheng, the Long March upcountry by which the Chinese Communist forces escaped annihilation nearly 40 years...
...north, 6,000 miles in all, to reach the barren cave-pocked lands near the Great Wall northwest of Yenan. Failure at any one of a dozen points would have meant extinction of Communist hopes, possibly forever; but success meant more than mere survival. Veterans of the Ch'ang Cheng would wage war against the Japanese and finally take over all China. Today, wreathed in age and honors like Mao, they occupy four or five hundred of the country's key military and bureaucratic positions...