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...base where we are waved in by a P.L. A. traffic policeman snapping green and red flags in his hands. Near by the troops line up; they practice firing their AK-47 automatic rifles and butt each other with rubber-tipped bayonets shouting "Heighten vigilance to our motherland...
...Overseas Chinese," says Chen. "For 45 years I have tried to work for the good of my motherland. The old warlord China was a burden on the world. Now China can help others. I think it is ready to play a positive and constructive role...
...rate KGB agents are flowing back to the motherland, Moscow's perennial housing shortage may soon become critical. Last month Oleg Lyalin, a member of the Soviet trade mission in London, exposed the espionage activities that sent 105 Russian officials scurrying home from Britain. Last week Anatole Chebotarev, a reputed friend of Lyalin's and a member of the Soviet trade mission in Brussels, who had been missing for five days, surfaced in England. He gave Western intelligence services a complete list of KGB and GRU (special military espionage) agents operating out of Brussels. NATO circles have reportedly...
...China for only 13 years-from 1886 to 1895, and 1945 to 1949. Thus the island has in effect been separated from the mainland for more than 70 years-and an international doctrine of "separate development" has been cited by former British colonies that broke away from the motherland, most notably the U.S. Such are the stakes involved among the superpowers, however, that the Taiwanese are unlikely to find many listeners for that point of view...
...have TV, which we often watch; and when the American astronauts were making their first unprecedented moon trip, we were looking on the screens most eagerly. And now we have learned from the press about Apollo 14 [Feb. 22] and its tremendous success. We are proud of our Soviet motherland's own great achievements in space research, but equally we are delighted by this brilliant necklace of heroic moon trips of the American astronauts. It is my desire that others should join with our two great countries in peaceful cooperation in space research to the good...