Word: chich
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...atmosphere was anything but cordial. One indication of the sorry state of relations between the two Communist giants came during a Moscow news conference conducted by the Soviet Union's tough but soft-spoken Foreign Ministry press chief, Leonid Zamyatin. In the midst of the conference, Huang Chung-chich, the New China News Agency's man in Moscow, leaped to his feet to ask why the Kremlin had permitted publication of an article in a new Soviet industrial newspaper that referred to Taiwan as a "country." Peking had protested the reference as evidence of Soviet-American collusion against...
Timely Roundup. Like Ike, "Chichí" Remón, 45, is a professional soldier. But since Panama had no army, he had to go abroad for his education, graduating as a cavalry officer from Mexico's Military College. Back in Panama, he entered the National Police (the nation's only armed force) as a captain. At U.S. invitation, he later attended the famed old cavalry school at Fort Riley, Kans., where he became a crack shot and a good friend of the U.S. Pearl Harbor time found Chichi in a position to do his friends of the north...
Higher Taxes. So far, Chichí Remón has managed to be Panama's best President in years. Panamanians, accustomed to seeing the public treasury drained in one way or another by elected officials, now tell themselves incredulously that he is "really trying to do something for Panama." He raised income taxes, previously a joke, by 50% in the higher brackets-and forbade the government to do business with anyone who could not produce a tax receipt. Now he has tackled the delicate job of rewriting Panama's relationship to the U.S., whose flag flies over...
...What Chichí seems to want now (though he has not said so officially) is a fairer annual rent. Possible asking price: $1,000,000, or a percentage of the canal's tolls (now running around $37 million a year). Chichí also would like the Canal Zone to curb some of its business activities (notably, commissaries for its employees) to help competing Panamanian commerce...
...undoubtedly prepared to concede something, and delegates from both countries have just begun negotiating in Washington. How much Panama gets in the end may depend a lot on just how tactful a pitch likable, English-speaking Chichí Remón was able to make to Ike at dinner this week...