Word: mao
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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MOSCOW, Nov. 6--Nikita Khrushchev and Mao Tse--tung made a double-barreled attack today on the United States, gibing at its lag on launching Sputniks and accusing it of plotting trouble all over the world. Khrushchev and Mao spoke here in ceremonies marking the 40th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution...
...Minister, Zhukov was scheduled to preside over next week's grandiose celebration of the Revolution's 40th anniversary in Moscow. Masses of the latest military gear are already marshaled under canvas near Red Square. Red luminaries from all over the world, headed by Red China's Mao Tse-tung, are on their way to Moscow. What function would Zhukov be assigned...
...Hong Kong, Canada's Trade Commissioner Max Forsyth Smith saw an opportunity to unload some of Canada's surplus wheat. Canada has not recognized Mao Tse-tung, and has no wish to offend the U.S. by doing so. But many Canadians blame the U.S.'s "dumping" of surplus wheat for Canada's own mountainous surplus. At week's end, with the approval of the government in Ottawa, Forsyth Smith prepared to go to Peking to see how much hard-pressed Mao Tse-tung would pay for a few million tons...
Firecrackers exploded, sirens screamed, airplanes dipped their wings in salute, and Mao Tse-tung said it in poetry that undoubtedly sounded better in Chinese: "A bridge from north to south−an insuperable barrier becomes a thoroughfare...
...Mao Tse-tung stood high on the Gate of Heavenly Peace, beamed down as half a million persons paraded before him in celebration of the eighth anniversary of the Communist conquest of China. There were the well-drilled children of the Young Pioneers, paratroopers, government workers with flowers in hand. Overhead roared Soviet-made jet bombers and Chinese-made jet fighters. Also on hand were goodwill delegations from Burma and Cambodia, Bulgaria's Premier Anton Yugov, and Hungary's Premier Janos Kadar...