Word: kuo
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Political Laboratory. Kuo Mojo, the venerable head of China's Academy of Sciences, was surprised to learn from Terrill that one of his books, Ancient Chinese Society, was still on sale, even though Kuo was reported to have ordered it burned during the Cultural Revolution. He nonetheless autographed Terrill's copy and let out the news that Chairman Mao, at 77, is learning English, and enjoys tossing around newly learned phrases like "law-and-order...
...remembers Wu as "the loudest man we've ever had here." Peking's leaders have never exactly venerated the institution. Leery of its peace-keeping attempts, Chou has derisively called the U.N. "an international gendarmerie." In a recent interview in a Japanese newspaper, the Mao regime's leading intellectual, Kuo Mojo, called the U.N. a "dangerous slaughterhouse," citing its interventions in the Congo and Korea...
...alternative, which some experts predict will happen in as few as five years, is reunification-a euphemism for Peking's takeover. Last week, not for the first time, there were widespread rumors that Chiang Ching-kuo actually visited the mainland recently for secret talks with the Communists. Officials in Taipei once again denied any possibility of a deal with the mainland, but when the elder Chiang departs, even reunification is not inconceivable...
Taiwan's Ambassador to the U.S. blasted Nixon's move. Outwardly, Chiang Kai-shek kept his dignified cool by spending some time at the Evergreen Hotel on Sun Moon Lake in central Taiwan, his favorite summer resort. But both Chiang and his son and heir, Chiang Ching-kuo, 61, who is stubborn and tough like his father, had no illusions about the erosion of the position on which they have built their lives. As Taipei's Ambassador to the U.N. complained candidly: "The U.S. has pulled the rug out from under our feet...
...Chinese symbol is their warm reception of the visiting American table tennis team, he added. "The Chinese are the people who have always stayed home. They still call China by its old name- 'Chung-kuo,' which means 'middle country...