Word: ingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Vice Premier Teng Hsiao-p'ing of China...
...diplomatic relations with Taiwan, cancel the 1954 mutual defense treaty that committed the U.S. to guarantee Taiwan's military security and withdraw the 700 U.S. troops now on the island. On March 1, the U.S. and Peking would exchange ambassadors. Moreover, said Carter, Chinese Vice Premier Teng Hsiao-p'ing, 74, the shrewd and pragmatic chief architect of Peking's remarkable Great Leap Outward to the West, would visit Washington at the end of January for an unprecedented series of summit talks...
...seemed to react with pleasure to Hua's announcement. Reported TIME Correspondent Richard Bernstein, who heard the news while traveling through Nanning, a Chinese city about 100 miles northeast of the Vietnamese border: "The bearer of the good tidings was the director of the art institute, Ho Wei-ch'ing. He shouted toward us, 'Are there any Americans in that group?' 'Yes,' I answered, 'I am an American.' Ho reached out and touched me with his hand. 'I have some joyful news,' he said, and related Hua's announcement. There were handshakes all around. The feelings...
...used posters to inflame the local population against "the landlords who eat our flesh" and "the traitors who sell China to Japan." Poster polemics reached a new level of sophistication during the Cultural Revolution, when fanatical Red Guardsmen used them to attack "capitalist readers" like Teng Hsiao-p'ing...
...made news as well as reported it: visiting Washington Columnist Robert Novak. One evening while Novak and the Globe and Mail's Fraser were talking to a crowd near the posters, Fraser remarked that his colleague might be granted an interview with Vice Premier Teng Hsiao-p'ing ply following day. The astonished listeners, immediately began to ply Novak Novak questions for the Vice Premier. At the crowd's insistence, Novak said Teng had try to return the following evening to tell them what Teng had said. He failed to do so, pleading another engagement...