Word: destroyed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...capitalist-imperialist" West. Here were two former colonial states, both Asian and both underdeveloped, at each other's throats. Yet Communist China tirelessly reiterates that it is precisely such nations-the "have nots" of Asia, Africa and Latin America-that must eventually encircle the West and destroy it in a worldwide holocaust of "people's wars." Time and again, Peking has shown its readiness to provoke such wars and to support them to the death-the death, that is, of every last Pakistani, Vietnamese, Malayan, Algerian or Cuban...
...Country. Peking recently reaffirmed this view in perhaps its most bellicose language yet. In a major policy statement printed by every major newspaper on the mainland, beetle-browed Defense Minister Lin Piao-one of the top seven men in Red China's hierarchy-called for worldwide subversion to destroy the U.S. and its allies. Recalling Mao Tse-tung's guerrilla strategy of enlisting the rural peasantry against city-based governments, Lin declared: "If North America and Western Europe can be called the cities of the world, then Asia, Africa and Latin America are the rural areas. The contemporary...
...faced. I am deeply anxious because of the serious dangers for the country's economy, the country's international position, the development of the great national question of Cyprus and the internal situation. The acute nature of political passions is undermining and tending to destroy the spiritual unity of the nation...
...articles with admiration and envy. No one has shown that you impaired in any way the national security or even our national interest." Later, Sorensen apparently changed his mind and joined the chorus of critics. "It is not in the national interest," he said at a press conference, "to destroy a man's influence and usefulness." To show that he was as good as his word, Sorensen promptly deleted from the galleys of his own book a remark of Kennedy's which made clear that he was thinking of changing his Secretary of State...
...have read with great interest your Essay on nuclear proliferation [July 23]. You are kind enough to refer to my novel, Commander-1, which sets forth a ploy by which Red China could destroy the U.S. and Russia. The Essay is beautifully written and extremely thoughtprovoking. It is important that a magazine of your status should devote space to the world's greatest problem. Your Essay presents, without bias, the arguments of both sides in the world dilemma. I lean heavily toward the U.S. views, but it is encouraging to see this matter discussed without prejudice. This is journalism...