Word: liu
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Shared Dislike. At a banquet thrown by Chinese President Liu Shaochi, Ayub announced his intention to serve as "honest broker" between Washington and Peking in search of a negotiated settlement in Viet Nam-despite the fact that neither China nor the U.S. has shown much interest yet in such a settlement. In private talks with Premier Chou En-lai and Foreign Minister Marshal Chen Yi,* Ayub sought to promote further trade and, more important, nail down an interest-free, $60 million loan, promised late last year to encourage Pakistani purchases of Chinese cement, textiles and machinery...
...dozens of Nationalist divisions. But for all his military success, Chen was afflicted with what the Chinese Communists call "liberalism"-a certain in ability to adapt to Mao's hard-boiled personal asceticism. Chen prefers Western suits to the stern, closed-collar pajamas affected by Mao, Chou and Liu, plays go (a Japanese game of strategy) like an expert-though one Japanese master found him "too hasty." In Shanghai some years ago, Chen's friendliness with Chekiang Opera Star Yuan Hsueh-feng was the talk of the Bund. He once said: "Without women, a guerrilla unit...
...quickly allied themselves with discontented Watutsi refugees from neighboring Rwanda, inflaming their irredentist cause with propaganda and even arms. Chinese sympathizers were soon so numerous in the 64-member National Assembly that they became known locally as "The Group." At one of the Mwami's diplomatic receptions, Ambassador Liu brazenly walked up to the monarch and began talking. Stiffly, the Mwami rebuffed Liu by saying: "I speak only to ambassadors who know French...
...another occasion, the Chinese showed up at the local Catholic cathedral and settled into one of the front pews, chortling among themselves during Mass. When the worried Mwami ordered all embassy staffs cut to eight foreign nationals, Liu disdainfully ignored him, maintaining that most of his 16-man staff was made up of drivers, cooks and household personnel...
...killing, most of the 25 persons later arrested were members of The Group and sympathetic to the Chinese line. Moreover, there was evidence that the Mwami was next on the assassination list. With that, Mwambutsa IV decided that discretion was the better part of diplomacy: he gave Ambassador Liu the boot. Though the Chinese expulsion was defined as "momentary," and Peking may very well return to the sunny shores of Bujumbura, the Mwami clearly had learned a lesson of sorts...