Word: bitterly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Before the Moscow report about Mao, there was a good deal of evidence that the Russians were trying to patch up their bitter, nine-year feud with the Chinese. After the Kosygin-Chou meeting, the Soviets abruptly turned off their radio and newspaper campaign against the Chinese. The most notable exception was a story by London Evening News Correspondent Victor Louis, a Soviet citizen believed to have close ties to the K.G.B., the Soviet secret police. Louis hinted that Moscow, under the Brezhnev Doctrine, had not abandoned the possibility of intervention in China. Despite that report, the 4,500-mile...
Working under cover of darkness, Rhodesian officials last week swooped down on the thatched kraal of Chief Rekayi Tangwena. After a brief, bitter struggle, Rekayi and a subchief were bundled into a police Land-Rover and driven to a tribal reserve 17 miles away...
...strikes, the bitter debates and the political battles that gripped France last week could not alone explain the nation's unusually somber mood. When Georges Pompidou succeeded Charles de Gaulle three months ago, his countrymen were ready for a good long vacation. Except for the jolt of the franc's devaluation, they got it. But as the schools reopened, as the Chamber of Deputies resumed business in earnest, as "the season" in Paris began, 50 million Frenchmen were suddenly confronted with the sad fact that, from now on, their country is likely to play in the world...
...system of conscription which makes the campus a draft haven and which distorts career choices in an effort to avoid service in a war nobody wants to fight. The deep misgivings about the war, compounded by the immorality of using an inequitable draft to fight it, generate a bitter skepticism of the values which motivate all established authority...
...airport-he was received by Chairman Mao Tse-tung. Almost certainly, they then agreed on the need to increase aid to North Viet Nam, but no progress was evident on the settling of their feud. Since then, the feud has grown to epic proportions. Last March, just after a bitter, bloody Soviet-Chinese clash on the Ussuri River, Kosygin sought to telephone Peking's leaders. As Chinese Defense Minister Lin Piao later told the story, the Chinese replied coldly: "In view of the present relations between China and the Soviet Union, it is unsuitable to communicate by telephone...