Word: manchuria
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...professional expertise in State's top echelons will come from Career Ambassador U. Alexis Johnson, 60, who is currently serving in Tokyo. In 33 years as a foreign-service officer, Johnson has also been assigned to Korea, China, Manchuria, Brazil, the Philippines, Czechoslovakia, Thailand and Viet Nam. He will be the No. 3 man, Under Secretary for Political Affairs. Johnson's appointment was particularly popular with career foreign-service officers, whose Foreign Service Association recently recommended that the No. 3 job go to a professional diplomat. Nixon also announced that he would ask Ellsworth Bunker...
...judge by the official government press, all but nine of the country's 26 provinces and regions are beset by some degree of unrest. Peking has officially described the province of Kirin in Manchuria as "very disturbed" and warned the citizens of far northern Heilungkiang, which is rich in both industry and agriculture, that "bad elements are trying to sabotage the people's dictatorship and spread lies and rumors." In Inner Mongolia, counter-revolutionary bands have sprung up, murdering, sabotaging government installations and passing out anti-Mao leaflets. Mao Tse-tung's men charge that...
Died. Pu Yi, 61, last Emperor of China and from 1932 to 1945 Japan's puppet ruler of Manchuria; of cancer; in Peking. Heir to the 300-year-old Ch'ing dynasty, the "Son of Heaven" was enthroned as Emperor in 1908 at the age of two, and cried throughout the ceremony. Four years later, his overthrow by Sun Yat-sen marked the fall of the world's oldest empire. His life from then on was marked by three decades of royal fantasy, first as a virtual prisoner of the republican government in Peking's Forbidden...
...steel a year, several blast furnaces are reported to have been destroyed by recent rioting. There have been consistent reports of trouble in coal mines and of shortages of coal, and a full-scale battle was reported in August at China's biggest oil center, at Teaching in Manchuria. "Demons and monsters," Peking's People's Daily stormed a few weeks ago, "deliberately incite one group of the working masses to oppose another and upset the order of production." Not only should workers guard against such "sabotage," but, Peking radio suggested, it would be helpful if they...
...keep attacking it. They have yet to restore order to China's economy, yet to persuade the majority of Red Guard youths to go back to school (see EDUCATION), yet to rein in the factional infighting that has troubled their ranks. Lawlessness and violence flare each week from Manchuria in the north to the Vietnamese border in the south. The summer harvesting has been badly, perhaps grievously, hindered. Widespread transportation breakdowns are reported, the result of clashes between workers and Red Guards. And, backed by the local populace, a regional military commander in the strategic Yangtze River city...