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...DXers is to make at least one contact with each of the 318 "countries" recognized by hams around the world. Under criteria established by the American Radio Relay League, the largest ham organization, Navassa qualifies as one such country because it is more than 225 miles from its governing mainland. But no ham can talk to Navassa unless other amateurs go there to put it on the air. That was the aim of this "DXpedition...
DIED. C.Y. Tung, 71, owner of one of the world's largest independent fleets of ships; of a heart attack; in Hong Kong. Born in mainland China, he helped Nationalist China to rehabilitate its state-run shipping industry after World War II and then built his own 11 million-ton armada that totals 149 ships and tankers...
...growing rift between Peking and Washington over the Reagan Administration's decision to continue selling F-5E jet fighters to Taiwan. The Soviet Union, he stressed, did not have a "two Chinas" policy-in other words, unlike the U.S., it did not maintain ties to the island, which mainland China considers an integral part of its territory. Brezhnev's bid was part of a long-range effort to lure China away from its friendship with the U.S. Says Robert Jensen, professor of geography at Syracuse University: The Soviets "are having considerable success in driving a wedge between...
...exaggerating. On Feb. 28, 1972, at the close of the American President's historic trip to China, he and his host, Premier Chou Enlai, signed the Shanghai Communiqué calling for a renewal of relations between the U.S. and China, implacable enemies since the Communist takeover of the mainland in 1949. The agreement led to an immediate exchange of diplomats by the two nations that had fought so bitterly on the battlefields of the Korean War. Despite the problems that persist, particularly those concerning the status and defense of the Nationalist government on Taiwan, there is absolutely no doubt...
HANOVER, N.H.--Dartmouth College will institute the summer the first undergraduate program from the United States to be held in mainland China. The Dartmouth, the campus newspaper, reported last week...