Word: mainland
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...speech at the Cambridge Forum, Fairbank proposed a three-part solution: (1) the recognition and acceptance of a Chinese realm including Chinese government over Taiwan; (2) the acceptance of a semi-autonomous Taiwan within a sovereign China; and (3) an agreement by Taiwan to give up claims to the mainland...
...columnist. This week the two are exploring Peking with President Nixon, along with TIME-LIFE Photographer John Dominis, one of the few still cameramen on the trip. For Schecter it is almost like going home. He began China watching in 1960 in our Hong Kong bureau, later viewed the mainland from another angle as Tokyo bureau chief. After a tour of duty in Moscow, he returned to the U.S. in 1970 to cover the President. Sidey, one of Schecter's predecessors on the White House beat, has covered the careers and travels of three Presidents, starting with John Kennedy...
...U.S.A.F., 46, Military Assistant to the President. A graduate of West Point and the National War College, Scowcroft earned his Ph.D. in international relations from Columbia University. Former special assistant to the director of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, he is the highest ranking U.S. military officer to visit mainland China in a quarter-century...
Some Society. At 16, after forging postal money orders, he was sent to a series of mainland U.S. prisons, where he alternated between fighting and arguing. "I've always been militant. I was brought up on the teachings of Marcus Garvey." Shipped to a federal prison in Tallahassee, Fla. ("Wow, did I.run into some racism down there!"), he began to organize the inmates. The result was a "miniriot" and a transfer to Lewisburg, Pa. "I've got to praise the system there," he says. "I was able to get a lot of reading done." Blyden's discoveries...
...ideological rubric. Unlike many of the people holding positions of power, who feel they must view others at a distance which they think befits their stature, most workers prefer to deal strictly on a man-to-man basis. A demanding but even handed code of friendship prevails. A mainland Chinese appearing in their midst would be treated no differently than any other man if they could only see he was a man, and not just a "Communist...