Word: bamboos
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...houses of Phu Loc are made of artillery crates laid out in rigidly straight lines and bunched together for security. In 1965, the area was completely burned by American bombs because the land was too rich to leave to the Communists. Today not a single tree or bamboo shoot grows there. Asked what he missed most from earlier times, the village chief replied: "The jackfruit trees and the bamboo. They gave us wood, fruit and shade. Now it will take at least five years for the trees to grow back...
...first step, Japan must quickly take down the bamboo screen that blocks high-technology imports and foreign investment. Many Japanese industrialists tirelessly contend that their economy is an "adolescent" that needs protection against the big, rich, "mature" competitors of North America and Europe, but that argument clearly is not valid today. Japanese manufacturers also have an unnatural price advantage in world competition because their currency, the yen, is undervalued. Tokyo economists reluctantly concede that the yen must be revalued upward; there is likely to be a 5% revaluation within a year...
...last three years, Bruce Nelan discovered that "China watching is a misnomer. It has really been China reading until now." Barred from the country, most Western newsmen have relied heavily on the voluminous material published and broadcast in China, and on intelligence analyses of events behind the Bamboo Curtain. Though Peking has now allowed a slight parting of the curtain, understanding Ping Pong diplomacy, its genesis and potential, still demands depth reporting from the periphery of China and from other continents...
...Americans asked to see the Great Wall of China, and they were taken on a two-hour bus ride through an oncoming stream of trucks, bicycles, ponies and people and past a majestic mountain range and fields green with bamboo shoots. At the crenelated, 2,400-year-old wall, Steenhoven was moved to comment: "I've seen Hadrian's Wall between Scotland and England, but it's just a pebble by comparison." Back in the capital, the visitors were taken to Tsinghua University, where Cowan and the younger players broke off to play table tennis with some...
...years has a bona fide American reporter from a major U.S. news organization been allowed to visit Communist China. But last week, in the wake of the American table tennis team's unexpected visit to the land of Chairman Mao, the Bamboo Curtain for correspondents finally parted a little, and the rush...