Word: en
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...getting along with Peking no matter what. "I hope," said he, "that the government of India will give our cause the same support, if not more, as it has given to small countries like Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia." As for a meeting between Nehru and Red Chinese Premier Chou En-lai on Tibet, that might be useful-"provided the actual events in Tibet are considered in true perspective...
...several making the milk run between Doris and Mars, bearing loads of earthlings in flight from the threat of atomic destruction. A day's flight from Mars, Aniara's steering mechanism is jammed, and the ship wanders haphazardly out of the solar system ("We are always en route to infinity," sings the chief engineer); at the same time, the electronic brain reports the destruction of the planet Doris...
...villages in Algeria today. Their roofless houses and empty streets symbolize the plight of the passive Moslem population caught in the middle of the war's crossfire. The result is a social upheaval in which more than a million Moslems have been uprooted-either fleeing bombs or evicted en masse from "forbidden zones" by French attempts to "sterilize" rebel-infested areas...
...Reds had links with Shanghai, too, but no liking for it. The Communist Party of China was Shanghai-born in 1921; Red leaders, including Chou En-lai and Liu Shao-chi, had fought in its streets for control of the city workers-and lost. Mao Tse-tung viewed Shanghai with suspicion, believed that it was the "City of the Five Too-Manys": too many rascals, robbers, opium smokers, thieves and prostitutes...
...weeks and months wore by, idled Globe employes took work elsewhere; others struggled along on strike benefits (up to $80 a week). Left without a morning paper, Globe-Democrat readers and advertisers bolted en masse to the Post-Dispatch, which gained better than 60,000 in new circulation during the strike...