Word: chen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...convicted. He and two assistants, Special Effects Coordinator Paul Stewart and Stunt Pilot Dorcey Wingo, are accused of being criminally negligent during the filming of a Viet Nam War sequence in which a helicopter, disabled by a special-effects explosion, crashed onto Morrow, 53, and Vietnamese Actors Renee Chen, 6, and Myca Dinh Le, 7. The director and two other colleagues, Associate Producer George Folsey and Production Manager Dan Allingham, are charged with an additional count of manslaughter for endangering the lives of Chen and Le. Attorneys for the defendants say they have admitted they violated ; childlabor law by hiring...
...Lily Lee Chen sputters when she recalls a sign at a local gas station, WILL THE LAST AMERICAN TO LEAVE MONTEREY PARK PLEASE BRING THE FLAG? For Chen, the placard is testimony to a conflict that threatens to split Monterey Park, a city of about 59,000 next to Los Angeles, along ethnic lines. During the past 25 years, the Asian population has grown from 5% to 40%, and the increasingly prosperous city has been tagged the Asian Beverly Hills. But changes have bred resentment. A cultural cross fire over language -- English vs. Chinese -- has erupted in Monterey Park, with...
...foundation of private enterprise is already firmly established in the countries along the Pacific Rim, which has been the world's fastest-growing region in the past ten years. Their prosperity is based on a unique mixture of planning and enterprise sometimes called Confucian capitalism. Says Edward Chen, director of the Center of Asian Studies at the University of Hong Kong, about newly industrialized Taiwan, South Korea and Singapore: "The government always leaves some room for the private sector to excel and to compete and to get a reasonable rate of profit." Stressing education, hard work and social harmony, state...
...Chen, now a researcher at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, became aware of the misattributions when he saw a copy of Mao's Unpublished Poems. "Not all these poems are written by Chairman Mao," he told a friend. "Many are mine." Chen called the apparent plagiarism to the attention of then Premier Chou En-lai, who was a defender of the people against Maoist radicals. Chou reportedly praised Chen for speaking out and immediately called for circulation of the work to be halted...
...wife, Jiang Qing, had the young poet beaten and thrown into prison for his temerity. While he was in jail, Chen continued to write poems, one of which--a eulogy for Foreign Minister Marshal Chen Yi, who died in 1972--also found its way into a collection of Mao's works...