Word: fact
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Coming Decline of the Chinese Empire were the creation of some hack novelist, it might be dismissed as turgidly written and historically inaccurate-for it is both of those-but it is in fact the work of Victor Louis, 50, Moscow correspondent for the London Evening News, world traveler, bon vivant and a man widely reputed to have close connections with the Soviet KGB. The book thus can be interpreted as a Soviet government fantasy of China's eventual political and geographical disintegration-and a rationale for direct Soviet military intervention...
...recognized black leader, Randolph began to take stands on national issues. On the eve of World War II, he was stung by the fact that defense industries were deliberately excluding blacks from employment. After numerous conferences led nowhere, he threatened a mass march on Washington. He was hastily summoned to the White House, where President Roosevelt tried to outtalk him. "He kept cutting in, monopolizing the conversation," complained Randolph, who was not used to such treatment. Randolph refused to budge until an exasperated F.D.R. finally signed an Executive order banning discrimination in defense industries and Government employment...
...dogs can go on barking-but they will not stop the caravan." So said Egypt's President Anwar Sadat last week, in a brave dismissal of critics within the Arab world who have denounced him as a traitor for signing a peace treaty with Israel. In fact, those "dogs" yapping at Sadat have plenty of bite. The truth is that the cost of peace for both Israel and Egypt is beginning to hurt in earnest...
...Taipei quietly opened the American Institute in Taiwan, taking over quarters that had once been occupied by the U.S. military. In the Taiwan Relations Act, passed by Congress in March, the institute is described as "a nongovernmental entity incorporated under the laws of the District of Columbia." In fact, it carries out virtually all of the functions of the old U.S. embassy, which closed after Washington normalized relations with Peking and broke off diplomatic ties with the Republic of China...
...Foreign Minister to Taipei on an official visit. Only 21 countries, mostly Latin American and African, still have diplomatic relations with the Republic of China; they include such important trading partners as South Africa and oil-rich Saudi Arabia. Since the break in relations with the U.S., in fact, there has been only one major change on the Taipei diplomatic scene: Uruguay, formerly represented by a chargé d'affaires, now has an ambassador...