Word: ch
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Peking's main thoroughfare, Ch'ang An Avenue, was decked out in holiday garb. Strings of red, pink, turquoise and yellow pennants fluttered gaily above the curb-to-curb crush of bicyclists and horn-tooting motorists, and bright red palace lanterns illuminated the Gate of Heavenly Peace. Not only in Peking but in every Chinese city, village and hamlet, the Lunar New Year celebration was under way last week...
...Zumwalt Jr., former Chief of Naval Operations; General Albert C. Wedemeyer, China theater commander in World War II; Major General George J. Keegan Jr., former Air Force chief of intelligence. *The CIA estimates it at more like 11% to 15% of G.N.P. *A reference to Mao's widow, Chiang Ch'ing, and three other high officials who sought to seize power after Mao died in September...
...Khomeini's headquarters at Neauphle-le-Château, aides had set up a table under an apple tree and begun taking press reservations for seats on the jumbo jet that was to carry Khomeini home. Unfazed by news that Iran Air was grounded, the Ayatullah's entourage chartered an Air France 707. After hearing that the army had occupied all the country's major airports, a Khomeini aide, Dr. Ibrahim Yazdi, explained that the plans had to be changed and "takeoff sadly will be delayed...
...that city. At the same time, the messages were played over telephone lines to some 9,000 mosques all over Iran, where they were similarly recorded, transcribed and distributed. So speedy was this transmission, says one person who worked on it, that "a phone call from Neauphle-le-Château to Qum was better than any type of computer communication system...
...after day, streams of reporters journey to the drab stucco bungalow in Neauphle-le-Château, outside Paris, where the 78-year-old mullah has lived in exile since last October. There the journalists submit written questions, are bidden to sit cross-legged on the floor in a barren room, and then listen as Khomeini, dressed in his black turban and robe, delivers his answers in Farsi monotone. Khomeini's replies are usually short, banal and often repetitive. He can rarely be drawn out on crucial political issues: Who should rule the Islamic republic he espouses for Iran...