Word: chungs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...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...
...farmers' faith is described in one of 500 war vignettes recently submitted in an essay contest on nationalism sponsored by the Saigon daily Tieng Not Dan Toe (Voice of the People). The competition was the idea of the paper's 29-year-old publisher, Ly Quy Chung, a member of the National Assembly's lower house and a leading supporter of a neutralist "third force" settlement of the war. The winning essays, like Chung's editorial policies, tended to be antiwar and implicitly critical of the U.S. presence. But they are not primarily political documents. Many...
...Essays. With the financial help of political friends, including General Duong Van ("Big") Minh, Publisher Chung awarded modest cash prizes to runners-up and ran the top 75 essays in his paper. Neither his pals nor his prose won him much favor with the regime of President Nguyen Van Thieu. Two weeks ago, on a charge of "promoting neutralism," Thieu's censors closed down the Voice of the People indefinitely. That action in itself is an eloquent essay on the war in Viet...
Agnew remained cautious and rather stiff as he attended the inauguration of Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos, chatted with South Korean Prime Minister Chung II Kwon, and carried out such ceremonial chores as laying wreaths, visiting an experimental rice farm, and dispensing the latest U.S. diplomatic lagniappe to friendly heads of state: tiny pieces of moon rock...