Word: cantonization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After arriving in Canton on June 16, Terrill spent 40 days in the People's Republic, visiting rural communes and vacation resorts as well as seven major cities, including Shanghai and Peking, where he met Premier Chou Enlai. Terrill's determination to see as much as he could-"the actual world of sweat and cicadas, boiled rice and bicycles" -led to what he calls "a friendly tension between the authorities and myself." Because he speaks Chinese, they were worried that he spent too much time mingling with the people. Politely but firmly, they tried to keep him from...
Thirsty Pachyderms. Evidence of the fouling of Switzerland's once pure waters crops up everywhere. Health authorities in the canton of Aargau recently forbade a circus to allow its elephants to drink from the river Aar; the water was too polluted even for pachyderms, the doctors said. Lake Geneva, whose transparent water and white chalk bottom once moved poets to lyricism, is becoming clouded and dull. Industrial, agricultural and household chemicals-not to mention raw human wastes-drain uninterruptedly into the lake, where they fertilize enormous "blooms" of rust-colored algae. When these plants die, they sink and decompose...
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...Cong Duc is far and away the most popular candidate in Vinh Binh, a flat, fertile province in the Mekong Delta, 60 miles southeast of Saigon. Son of a wealthy canton chief who was assassinated by Communists in 1954, Duc has gradually shifted from being a defender of the status quo to being a critic of the war and of the presence of foreign forces. He is now a national personality, and in any fair election would be an odds-on favorite to win. As the campaign came to an end last week, Duc expected to get no more than...
...side. For most Westerners, help from the guides is essential: few Chinese speak English. The guides so far encountered by Statesiders have proved amiable and helpful, and their English is workable. In general, guides stick with a traveler in only one area. Once launched on the flight from Canton to Peking ($39 one way), or the 25½-hr. Canton-Shanghai express, the traveler is on his own until scooped up at his destination by another guide...