Word: kaishek
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Long overshadowed by his father, Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, Taiwan's President Chiang Ching-kuo, 69, has emerged as a capable, hard-working leader who spends much of his time visiting with citizens of the island republic. In an interview with TIME Hong Kong Bureau Chief Marsh Clark, Chiang expressed considerable optimism about the future of Taiwan. Excerpts...
...about the Chinese. It was a rather emotional conversation." At dinner Nixon sat across from Brzezinski, who asked him what leaders he admired most. "You won't catch me naming them," said Nixon, then could not resist citing Charles de Gaulle, the Shah of Iran and Chiang Kaishek...
DIED. Kuo Mojo, 85, China's most prolific and durable literary figure; in Peking. A poet, novelist, dramatist and translator, he was also a propagandist who at the proper times sang the praises of Chiang Kaishek, Stalin, Mao Tse-tung and Hua Kuo-feng...
...would soon find out about the Kuomintang, or Nationalist Party, which ruled China at that time. Its ramrod-straight young leader was Chiang Kaishek, who by 1928 had succeeded by force of arms in establishing control over the entire country, incorporating dozens of powerful local warlords into a tenuous union. For four years Chiang had endured an uneasy united front with the fledgling Communist Party (founded in 1921), but during his "reunification campaign, "he had broken with it, determined to destroy it. Weaker by far than the Nationalist Party, the Communist Party went underground in the cities while a small...
...experts' judgment, but it was their loyalty that was frenetically attacked. They were railroaded out of the Foreign Service, or at best shunted off to obscure posts far from Asia. Their salient fault was to have reported on China as they saw it: America's ally, Chiang Kaishek, looked to them like a loser in 1944, and the Communists, with their grass-roots appeal, like winners. Later, during the early 1950s, the investigators willfully confused prediction with preference until it became plausible to say, as one of them did, that the Foreign Service officers "planned to slowly choke...