Word: formosae
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...Instead, Khrushchev pursued a detente with the West. In 1958 he agreed to a moratorium on nuclear testing in the atmosphere (broken in 1961), partly designed to freeze out Peking as an atomic power. When the Chinese wanted Russian atomic cover for a move against the offshore islands and Formosa, Moscow refused...
...fought through peaceful means, and the Mao Tse-tung line, which demands an aggressive policy. Coming on in the first session at the Kremlin's modern Hall of Congresses, Japan's kimono-clad Fuki Kushida demanded the withdrawal of U.S. "aggressive forces" from South Viet Nam, Formosa, Okinawa, Africa, Latin America and the Middle East. In a simpler period of Communist history, this might have passed almost unnoticed as the standard line, East or West. But now there was a sudden movement on the floor, and out of the hall stalked 50 of the finest, most peace-loving...
...that became evident in 1961, with widespread famine and declining industrial output, despite the government's merciless mobilization of people and resources. Communist China's economic disasters seemed all the more glaring in contrast with the prosperity of such free-world nations in East Asia as Japan, Formosa, the Philippines...
...used to be that every nation, developed or underdeveloped, wanted its own steel mill. Now it is auto plants. Home assembly plants of foreign-designed cars have blossomed from Egypt to Formosa. Japan's 14 auto producers, who design their own autos, plan to double production this year. South Africa's plants put together no fewer than 95 different models. But Latin American countries, which have caught the itch, simply cannot afford the grandiose auto industries that they have lately created. While the U.S. has five major auto producers, Latin America has close to 50-mostly from...
...restaurant in Formosa follows the practice of many a good American seafood house: the patron is invited to select his dinner before it is cooked. There are cages of boxers and dachshunds and mongrel pups to choose from, but chow is considered the best...