Word: nationalist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...began last month, charming her hosts at a luncheon with 60 Senators and at a dinner given by Dean Rusk-and all the while discussing the danger of admitting Red China to the United Nations. Her wit and ebullience only served to increase the mystery of another, more retiring Nationalist Chinese visitor-one whom she knows well: Defense Minister Chiang Chingkuo, the Generalissimo's son by his first marriage and his political heir apparent...
Enigmatic Element. Part of the mystery about Chiang derives from the fact that for years he held only semivisible posts in the Nationalist government. These assignments, together with his envy-inspiring parentage, forced him to operate backstage and left his position in the Nationalist hierarchy somewhat uncertain. He emerged from the shadows only this year, at age 56, to become Defense Minister. When Vice President Chen Cheng died in March, any doubts that Chiang would succeed his father as Nationalist China's chief vanished. Another enigmatic element in Chiang's career is the twelve years he spent...
...wouldn't be surprised if she produced a hot dog from the sleeve of her dress." A lot of people persisted in saying that Madame Chiang Kaishek, 67, had something up her sleeve as she sampled U.S. cooking and opinion for the first time in seven years. But Nationalist China's graceful First Lady, moving into the presidential suite of Washington's Shoreham Hotel for a brief stay, merely repeated that the trip was private, "just to visit old friends and make a few speeches...
...would be madness to think of independence," announced a leading Seychelles nationalist in 1961. "We're just too small...
...embarrassing situation for Kaunda, who must swallow enough of his African nationalist pride to stay on speaking terms with white-supremacist regimes that most other black Africans have boycotted. Kaunda's enforced moderation has fallen on deaf ears in Rhodesia, whose racist Premier Ian Smith seems bent on severing all ties with Zambia-including the rail line. "There's going to be a hell of a trouble unless the people down there can see sense quickly," says Zambian Vice President Reuben Kamanga...