Word: pinging
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Chinese fear a Russian encirclement -Moscow's allies on China's southern border could complement Soviet troops on China's northern flank. During his recent visit to Peking, Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos was told by the Chinese, "Our enemy is Russia." As Vice Premier Teng Hsiao-ping put it, "Two-thirds of the Soviet troops are now committed to the European front. But we are anticipating the day when they will be free to turn against...
...radicals and moderates-a struggle that burst into the open during the 1966-69 Cultural Revolution and has never really been fully resolved. Radical groups are upset that many of the officials who were disgraced during the Cultural Revolution have been reinstated-most notably Vice Premier Teng Hsiao-ping, the most powerful man in China after Chairman Mao Tse-tung and Premier Chou Enlai. They also object to the moderates' emphasis on production and their slighting of ideological struggle. The radicals seem to be egging on dissatisfied workers to create problems for the moderates; in some places they...
Motorcycles parked on Paris streets keeled over under their own weight as kickstands simply sank into asphalt that had turned to mush. In Jönköping, Sweden, city fathers warned parents not to let children play on park slides. Reason: too many badly burned bottoms. Ice cream sales climbed, and Britons lapped up Dalek Death Rays Ice Lollies (ices on a stick) at the rate of 2 million a week. They also forsook their tepid brews by the million, sending the sale of chilled Continental-style beer up by 60%. Hot pants were everywhere to be seen...
...ping Lee, a Harvard Summer School student, demonstrated a theory at an open session of the Health Careers Summer Program Saturday which he says should change traditional acupuncture...
...Chinese have signaled their concerns to Washington in a variety of ways. Early in June, Vice Premier Teng Hsiao-ping told a group of visiting American editors that President Gerald Ford would be welcome in China whether or not he had anything substantial to discuss. Chinese officials in Hong Kong suggest that the maximum goal for the Ford visit would be "normalization" of relations and resolution of the Taiwan issue. The minimum goal, they graciously add, "is for your President to come to China and have some good meals." Evidently, the Chinese policy will be one of moderation: urging...