Word: north
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...Charles Playhouse in Boston, where productions range from dreadful to very good, the upcoming season is a mixed blessing. On the good side are O'Neill's The Iceman Cometh (opens September 25) and the American premiere of Britisher Edward Bond's latest, Passage to the Deep North. Reduced-rate subscription tickets are available...
Last week part of that treasure produced a scene reminiscent of the land-rush days of the old West. At stake was not land or gold, but oil-an estimated 5 billion to 10 billion barrels -that lies below the tundra of Alaska's North Slope. Gathered in a concrete auditorium in Anchorage, executives of 50 oil companies bid for the right to explore for oil along a 140-mile coastal stretch of state-owned land. When the bidding ended, Alaska was richer by $862,297,961.05-more than has been mined in yellow gold in the past...
...confrontation was held in February 1965, as Kosygin was also on his way home from a visit to Hanoi. On that occasion, Kosygin made it farther than the airport-he was received by Chairman Mao Tse-tung. Almost certainly, they then agreed on the need to increase aid to North Viet Nam, but no progress was evident on the settling of their feud. Since then, the feud has grown to epic proportions. Last March, just after a bitter, bloody Soviet-Chinese clash on the Ussuri River, Kosygin sought to telephone Peking's leaders. As Chinese Defense Minister Lin Piao...
Only Ho's death, and the opportunity it offered the Chinese to strengthen their position in North Viet Nam, seem to have brought Peking to the point of agreeing to a new meeting. Certainly, the Chinese could not have snubbed Ho's posthumous plea for an end to comradely hostility without offending Hanoi. Rumanian Premier Ion Gheorghe Maurer, who stopped off in Peking en route home to Bucharest after Ho's funeral, appealed for Sino-Soviet talks. Moreover, the Chinese had stumbled badly in their handling of North Viet Nam over the past several days. Chou...
Almost certainly the initiative for the meeting came from Moscow. Japanese Communist Party Chairman Sanzo Nosaka said that Kosygin used his North Vietnamese hosts as go-betweens to let the Chinese know that he wanted to stop off in Peking. According to Nosaka, Kosygin made his request as soon as he reached Hanoi, but Peking had not bothered to reply by the time he departed five days later. Kosygin flew to Calcutta and was en route to Dushanbe in Soviet Central Asia when the Chinese leaders finally approved the meeting. Though Kosygin's long detour was interpreted...