Word: kais
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...does not speak Chinese and he is averse to bureaucratic interpreters; so Koningsberger had to rely heavily on his literary intuition and imagination. He had never visited pre-Communist China and did not go to Taiwan, but he is sure that China under Chiang Kai-shek was an abominable place where, as he says, millions continually starved or drowned. The "love and hate" of his title deal less with the people of Red China than with his own divinations...
...forced to go soft on imperialism. At least that is what Soviet sources traveling with Kosygin were leaking to Western newsmen. "Actually," argued one Russian, "we are fighting Washington's battle. And we're having as much trouble restraining Nasser as you used to have restraining Chiang Kai-shek...
...leadership group will disappear during a relatively brief period, with results that will be felt at every level of the country." The leadership's ideas are also aging. Practically all of the top men are first-stage revolutionaries who made the Long March, the retreat from Chiang Kai-shek's armies for 6,000 miles from east China to the barren northwest in 1934-35. They are afflicted with the "Yenan complex"-a belief in absolute, rigid adherence to the methods by which they survived and ultimately attained power. There are some among the Chinese leadership who clearly...
...island. Shops were decked with flags, soldiers and schoolchildren marched through the streets, and exploding strings of firecrackers forced bystanders to clap hands to their ears. Nevertheless, there were overtones of concern in Formosa last week when the National Assembly went through the motions of electing Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek to his fourth consecutive six-year term as President of Nationalist China...
Able Seaman Liang Chin-kai 23, was working on the deck of a tugboat in Canton harbor when he got involved in a classic accident that is dreaded by all sailors. His leg was tangled in a towing cable that suddenly snapped tight, all but amputating his right foot at the ankle joint. At Chung Shan Medical College Hospital No. 1 two hours later, Doctors Huang Cheng-ta and Li Pingheng, both 36, were faced with an extraordinary operation: the restoration of a foot attached to Liang's leg only by shreds of muscle, tendon and nerve...