Word: mainland
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...their own dinners and drinks. The main attraction for the Westerners, Japanese and others who attend the meetings is the opportunity to sound out, over whisky and soda, representatives from such organizations as the New China News Agency and the Bank of China on the latest developments in mainland China. Usually, about 30 Communist officials attend the dinners...
Because of the coldness in Sino-American relations, Chen until this year refused to let U.S. citizens attend the Marco Polo dinners. The rules have now been changed so that American residents of Hong Kong who have visited the mainland can join the club. The list of eligibles is certain to expand soon. In Chen's cheery words, "As more and more friends are made, the club will continue to grow...
...large, populous (395,600) Australian island-state southeast of the mainland...
...Federal government has maintained that Downey and Fecteau were civilian employees of the Army, but the Chinese claimed they were on a mission to drop Nationalist Chinese agents on the mainland...
...conference. The flyers, said their captors, had ejected from two F-4 Phantom fighter-bombers that had crashed near Hanoi and Haiphong. "All four looked very miserable and showed great fear on their faces," Radio Hanoi reported. They had come, it added, for a "brazen" attack "deep into the mainland of North Viet...