Word: lai
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first trip out of Egypt and, told that it was, added: "You should take advantage of this trip and travel to all the Asian countries." Nasser smiled again. In Rangoon, the Premiers sipped iced coconut milk and spent hours together conferring on matters coming up at Bandung. Chou En-lai was the first to leave for Bandung, but the last to arrive. Presumably concerned by what happened to a plane carrying an advance delegation from Peking (see below), Chou kept his schedule secret. At its stops his plane was surrounded by troops; it carried ten 45-gallon drums of fuel...
...croon at the mid-April conference of Asian-African leaders at Bandung, Indonesia, where he must share top billing with that old spotlight-stealer, Red China's Chou Enlai. Nehru's ambition is to establish an "area of peace" around the Indian Ocean. Taking Chou En-lai's professions of peace at face value, Jawaharlal Nehru is stuck with the thesis that those old debbil Americans must be causing all the trouble. It was getting to be an old song. The words made no sense, but in India the tune was undeniably popular...
...historic. The first U.S. Secretary of State to travel in continental Asia, he began by flying from the SEATO conference in Bangkok (TIME, March 7) to neutral Burma (where Premier U Nu received him with considerably more coolness than he had shown to Red China's Chou En-lai eight months before). After a day in Burma, he traded his big Constellation for a lighter C-47, so he could land in the Indo-China kingdom of Laos. Cambodia came next day; there he listened attentively to complaints against French interference by young, popular King Norodom Sihanouk...
...MIGs, tanks and other hardware) is openly displaying internal weakness and severe production failures, at a time when Communism is trying to give the appearance of unbeatable strength and inexorable influence across Asia. In Red China's only public reaction to the Kremlin turnover. Premier Chou-En-lai cabled a curiously minimal message of congratulation to Bulganin. "I am confident," said Chou. "that you. under the leadership of the united monolithic Central Committee . . . will surely make great achievements in the cause of the great Soviet peoples' Communist construction and in defense of peace." In the light...
...King Norodom defended Cambodia's new freedom against a determined Viet Minh invasion; in July he instructed his delegation at Geneva to hold out for his right to seek alliance with the U.S. and to rearm. After the treaty signing was delayed for five hours, Chou En-lai and Molotov gave...