Word: east
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...librarian of the Harvard-Yenching Library, said yesterday that the library has been using the Wade-Giles system of transliteration since it opened 50 years ago, but the Chinese government's decision on January 1 to publish all its foreign-language publications by the Pinyin system may force East Asian libraries to convert to Pinyin...
...said he was waiting to see if the Library of Congress and other East Asian libraries switch to Pinyin before deciding whether the Yenching Library should convert. "We also intend to talk to faculty and students. If the faculty very much wants Pinyin, I suppose we'll definitely have to switch," Wu said...
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...rash of espionage cases followed defection to the West of Lieut. Werner Stiller, a key officer in East Berlin's state security apparatus. Stiller, who was actually a West German agent, identified a number of East German spies working in West Germany. Since his defection, 14 suspects have been arrested, and 18 others have escaped to the East...
West German officials believe that the husbands or paramours of all six spying secretaries were East German control agents. As it happens, even before the latest defections, Bonn had launched a campaign to tighten its security system; it included a special warning for unmarried female employees. Posters in government buildings show a man nuzzling a woman. The caption: "There is a code word that opens safes: love." Beneath that: "Your partner has been married for a long time-to the East German state security service. Please think about...