Word: nese
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Unfriendly to Foreigners. Nor has Viet Nam historically taken kindly to nation builders, most of whom were colonialists at heart. For more than a thousand years the Vietnamese stub bornly resisted assimilation into a Chi nese kingdom, finally drove out the hated invaders from the north...
...couple of days later, he told Peking to stop meddling in Indonesia's internal affairs, declared his nation neutral in the Sino-Soviet feud and brushed off Peking's protest over sackings of Chi nese shops in East Java with the remark that Indonesians had a right to be angry with the Red Chinese...
...sockeye swim farther out to sea than anyone imagined When the U.S., Canada and Japan instituted their North Pacific fisheries treaty in 1953, North American negotiators set 175 degrees west longitude as the eastward limit for Japanese fishermen, confident that no Alaska salmon ventured that far west. But Japa nese fishermen found plenty of sockeye outside the boundary, and marine biologists soon learned the truth: in its life cycle, the sockeye swims out around the Aleutian islands for more than 3,000 miles in an elliptical course that brings it right into Japanese nets. The Japanese have been catching...
...rigidity of flexibility." His view of life?and business?is more akin to Diogenes than to Donner: "I believe in a paradoxical form of life. I don't believe anything is wholly right, but both right and wrong. There is a thin line between. There is a Chi nese proverb that 'Life is a search for truth and there is no truth.' It is important to know that truth carried too far becomes destructive." How many businessmen talk like that...
...reduced to gleaning shipping records from the world's docks to reconstruct Chinese production figures, and count the number of lines someone receives in a newspaper account to determine his standing in the community. While most Western newsmen, with the exception of Americans, are admitted to the Chi nese mainland, they are so few and so restricted that journalism's old friend of half a century ago -"a traveler just returned from the interior"-is once again an essential source of information. With patient use of these devices plus a few other tricks, newsmen and intelligence experts...