Word: chinging
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Ching Chen, this year's winner. The Eliot House sophomore says it was almost on a whim that, in the space of two months, she learned Tchaikovsky's long and demanding first piano concerto, which she will play with the HRO at Sanders Theater tonight...
...Chiang Ching-kuo grew up barely knowing his father, who was away most of the time making a career in the military. He was educated in the Soviet Union, embraced Communism for a time, and at one point signed a denunciation calling his father an "enemy of the working class." Later, Soviet authorities made - Chiang a virtual hostage, banishing him to Siberia and the Urals. There he married a young Russian woman named Faina...
...Chiang Ching-kuo was finally allowed to return home after twelve years in the Soviet Union. He served in a succession of government posts, and in 1949 joined his father and 2 million other mainlanders in a mass retreat across the Formosa Strait after the Communists seized power in Beijing. Chiang Ching-kuo then presided over a political-warfare department that policed the island against mainland infiltrators and waged propaganda campaigns against the Communists...
...mainland of China. Shortly after 8 p.m. last Wednesday, programming on Taiwan's government-owned television and radio stations was suddenly interrupted. Premier Yu Kuo-hwa was shown addressing the central standing committee of the ruling Kuomintang (Nationalist Party). Speaking in somber, measured tones, he announced that President Chiang Ching-kuo, 77, son of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, had died of heart failure in Taipei, the capital. A few minutes later, Vice President Lee Teng-hui, already sworn in as Chiang's successor, called on his fellow citizens to "unite together and fulfill the mission that Mr. Chiang was unable...
...security forces wonder what to do next. In the most inflammatory incident yet, police attack demonstrators on the sacred grounds of Jerusalem' s Temple Mount. -- Five Central American leaders meet in Costa Rica and give peace another chance. -- A dynasty ends with the death of Taiwan' s President Chiang Ching...