Word: incidentals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This time, the Russians did more than protest the Chinese outrages. They began an emergency airlift of all of their more than 200 embassy dependents from Peking, who started boarding planes amidst a howling mob of angry Chinese. The Russians also retaliated in Moscow, where the Chinese embassy had mounted...
"Filthy Soviet revisionist swine!" cried the Peking People's Daily. In Moscow itself, the Chinese charge d'affaires, An Chih-yuan, called his hosts "paper tigers" and warned ominously: "The day will come when we will make the Soviet revisionists repay their blood debts." Since Mao Tse-tung...
No Excuse Needed. The episode fell like a spark on the dried-up timber of Sino-Soviet relations. As the Chinese students continued on their way, some of them conspicuously swathed in bandages, the Chinese embassy lodged "the most serious and strongest protest" and demanded that "the Soviet government publicly...
During the first 400 miles of her trip, Michèle encountered the Viet Cong only once-on Christmas Day. Cheerfully pointing to herself, she kept repeating "Phap," the Vietnamese word for French. The startled Viet Cong gave her a cup of tea and sent her on her way. The...
Counterattack. With thousands of workers pouring into Peking from the nay-saying cities, the capital was poised for trouble. Radio Moscow claimed that the situation threatened to paralyze Peking's factories and rail communications. Wall posters (see box) reported one incident in which anti-Mao mobs stormed the cabinet...