Word: lai
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Harvard Ph.D. graduates are among the right-hand aides of Premier Chou En-lai of Communist China...
...about having a woman as U.S. ambassador. She learned to speak proficient Italian, was interviewed, photographed, talked about wherever she traveled. Her popularity rose to a peak when, ten days after a disastrous crash of an Italian airline plane (Linee Aeree Italiane) in New York, she calmly boarded an LAI plane for a flight home. An Italian public-opinion poll once reported that half of the Italian people knew Clare Luce (normal ambassadorial batting average...
...Everything." His trip last spring to the Bandung conference, where Nehru and Chou En-lai made much of him, helped convince Nasser that he had become a world figure. His pressagents, exuberantly whooping up the cult of the Cairo hero, seem to have influenced him at least as much as their readers. Two years of almost unbridled authority have also left their mark. "I know everything that goes on in this country," he told a U.S. newsman recently. "I run everything myself...
While the U.S. hesitated, anxious not to start an arms race in the Middle East, the Russians saw the chance they had been looking for. The Nasser who found Chou En-lai's coexistence charter at Bandung "quite convincing" sounded to Communists like their kind of neutralist−a soldier, a conspirator with a smoldering sense of anticolonial vengeance. By offering arms to Nasser, the Communists could strike hard at the Baghdad Pact. They could also win a foothold at last in the Eastern Mediterranean...
Promises & Problems. Red China first officially launched its offensive against the minds and morale of Chinese students in the U.S. during the summer of 1954. At the first Geneva Conference Chou En-lai accused the U.S. of "persecuting" and "detaining" Chinese students, especially 124 technicians held by the U.S. during the Korean war so that their skills would not be available to the enemy. When the U.S. lifted the ban, only half of the 124 chose to go home, but Red China decided to go after the entire Chinese student body in the U.S. Last March Peking began to register...