Word: nationalist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...White Flagpole. Like many African leaders, Kaunda is a fervent advocate of nonalignment, and to keep Zambia out of the cold war, he refuses to accept large doses of either American or Russian aid. He is also a passionate African nationalist, and recently admitted that he stands at attention whenever he hears the national anthem-even if he has to climb out of bed. Yet he takes care to keep post-independence compulsions, such as changing the old colonial street names, within reasonable bounds. Last week, for example, the mining town of Broken Hill officially changed the name of Baden...
Cloaked in inscrutability and her undying charm, Madame Chiang Kaishek, 67, flew into the U.S. for her first visit since 1958. Immediately, she had everyone wondering whether the tour might include a stop at the White House and some talks about the future of Formosa, but Nationalist China's First Lady gracefully sidestepped all questions about her purposes. She said she would like to visit President Johnson, but added that no advance arrangements had been made. Then Madame Chiang visited relatives and friends in San Francisco, revealing a bit of gossip about her husband. "In the last two years...
...Taipei the dashing 34-year-old ex-fighter pilot had easily charmed the Nationalists, already flattered by his visit, with a show of boyish derring-do and conviviality, and had delighted merchants with purchases of trinkets and gifts for the folks back home, including 60 long-playing record albums and three pairs of blue jeans. On a tour of Kung Kuan airbase, 80 miles outside Taipei, Ky got permission from Chinese brass to take a test spin in an American F-104, spent five minutes diving and banking, then taxied smartly up to the reviewing stand erected in his honor...
Despite hints by Formosa, which still has the third largest army in Asia (400,000 men), Ky was not after troops for his embattled nation, sought instead economic and technical aid and−most important−the psychological support of other Asian countries. To these limited aims, the Nationalist Chinese and Thais responded enthusiastically. Ky was so satisfied with his first round of image-building abroad that he will make more trips in September. Next stops: the Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore and South Korea...
...foreign correspondent is a commentator or analyst, not a crusader." What he needs is judgment, and historical perspective−attributes that are all too often lacking, fn China, Rand recalls, even the ablest of the reporters seemed to spend just about all his time exposing corruption in he Nationalist government. While "you needed to know that various officials were grafting, and you needed to say so at the right times, you didn't have o make a sensation of it as it was only a detail in the chaos of the times...