Word: chen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, 55-year-old Chiang Ching-kuo has long been touted to have better than an even chance to take charge of Nationalist China when his father, now 77, retires. But no one could ever be certain that Little Chiang would win out over Vice President Chen Cheng, rival leader of another Kuomintang faction...
Last week, with Chiang Ching-kuo firmly installed in a top Cabinet post, and with 67-year-old Chen Cheng almost constantly abed with a liver ailment, the issue seemed less in doubt. Chiang was made Minister of National Defense, a post for which he has long been preparing as Deputy Minister. In other shifts, the Ministries of Economic Affairs and Education were handed to two of his firmest allies, Cambridge-educated scientist-economist Li Kuo-ting and Yen Chen-hsing, a Ph.D. from Iowa State University. The older men they replaced were known to have leaned more toward Chen...
...White, 52, former Air Force Assistant Secretary, now a partner in the Wall Street law firm of Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft. Other principals are ex-Deputy Defense Secretary Roger Kyes (now a General Motors vice president); the estate of ex-Defense Secretary Charles Wilson; and two ChineseAmerican businessmen, C. Y. Chen and C. T. Shen, who made a fortune in export-import and shipping...
Strategic Strait. Whether or not anyone buys the theory of collusion with China, eyebrows in the West rose at news of the surprise visit to Djakarta in November by Red Chinese Foreign Minister Chen Yi. Last week, while Russia was among those trying to head off Indonesia's U.N. walkout, Peking applauded it, ridiculing the world organization as "a vile place for a few powers to share the spoils." In any case, the objectives of Sukarno and Mao Tse-tung on Malaysia clearly converge: both want the downfall of its pro-West regime-a prospect that holds grave political...
Like the young bride always threatening to go home to Mother, Cambodia's neutralist Prince Norodom ("Snookie") Sihanouk more or less survives on the international scene by constantly threatening to break off with somebody. Last week, as Red Chinese Foreign Minister Chen Yi dropped by for Cambodian independence-day ceremonies, Sihanouk affirmed what no one doubted-that he was perfectly capable of renouncing "our monarchic and nationalist regime to adopt the Communist regime." Next thing, Snookie warned Russia and Red China that unless his economic problems are solved, Cambodia might abandon these nations and "align itself with the very...