Word: chinatown
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...Under Secretary is Tang Ming-chao, 62, an American-educated diplomat who edited a newspaper in New York's Chinatown before returning to his homeland in 1950. In his new post, Tang will be involved with the work of the U.N. Trusteeship Council. He will thereby be in a position to press for the independence of the world's remaining colonial territories...
Although centered in the Southeast Bronx, the gang subculture exists in Brooklyn, Queens and even Chinatown: pitched battles between immigrant Taiwanese and U.S.-born Chinese youths recently resulted in two homicides. In Castle Hill, a lower middle-class neighborhood in the East Bronx, teachers at Adlai Stevenson High School say that a gang of black girls called the Black Persuaders is one reason for a rash of student transfers. The Persuaders' initiation rite requires the new member to beat up a white girl...
...more visible repercussions of Richard Nixon's China trip has been a sudden American appetite for things Chinese. In New York City's Chinatown, according to one food wholesaler's estimate, restaurant business has increased 25% since the President went to Peking. Part of the rise may have been due to the recent Chinese New Year, but the televised spectacle of the Nixons sitting down to eight-course Mandarin dinners obviously set many salivary glands to work...
...critic's viewpoint, the first day, despite a few flubs and miscues, was the season's best network TV show. With deadpan eye, the camera faithfully recorded Premier Chou choosing choice tidbits for Dick and Pat, like some top-level guide on a Gray Lines tour of Chinatown. Later, when the meal and the speeches were over, the camera with equal fidelity observed the toasts and watched the Chief Executive clink glasses with what seemed like the entire Peking hierarchy. Yet the mixture of high and low, trivial and important, seemed right, and gave the whole affair that...
...years, busing was primarily a Southern concern as courts ordered school districts to dismantle dual school systems. But in the past year, court-dictated busing spread to Northern cities, giving rise to boycotts and sporadic violence in such disparate places as Pontiac, Mich., and San Francisco's Chinatown. One reaction to the uproar was a proposed constitutional amendment prohibiting busing...