Word: port
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...language of communiques ("increased defensive potential," and "accumulation of necessary economic experience"). It was evident even more in the way the accords were struck. Four years ago, Mao Tse-tung himself meekly trooped off to Moscow, signed, under Stalin's eye, the treaty leaving the strategic Port Arthur region in Russian hands. This time Mao did not go to Moscow. Three of the top Russian rulers, headed by No. 2 man, Nikita
Underneath, the accords wore the look of deep cooperation between Moscow and Peking. Most of the points were Russian concessions. The Russians agreed: ¶ To evacuate their ice-free Manchurian naval base at Port Arthur (pop. 142,000) by the end of next May, thereby ending a ten-year military occupation. ¶ To extend another $130 million in long-term credits to Peking. ¶ To sell back (for easy payments of Chinese exports) their share of four joint Soviet-Chinese companies in Red China now that the Chinese "can themselves manage the activity of enterprises." This was on the surface...
...Communist military police with gold stars on their helmets mounted guard in the city, the last truckloads of Foreign Legionnaires clattered across the mile-long Doumer Bridge over the flood-swollen Red River to join the rest of the French Viet Nam garrison 60 miles southeast at the port of Haiphong. There the French may stay till May, when under the Geneva agreements they must withdraw further south, below the Geneva dividing line at the 17th parallel, and leave all of north Viet Nam's rich rice bowl to the Reds...
Market women, hiking down out of the mountains with produce for Port-au-Prince one day last week, reached the way stop of Petionville to find a situation of astonishing, rapturous stupidity. There stood trucks, orange military buses and trim government Jeepsters, doors invitingly open, all offering free rides to the capital. No imbeciles, the women lowered from their heads baskets of pineapples and beans, loaded the stuff aboard the vehicles and climbed in, some for the first auto ride of their lives...
...only to $15, and no bond was demanded. After that was made clear-and after President Magloire urged judges to go easy on fining the maximum-the drivers ended the four-day strike and returned to their wheels. With the stupidity over, market women went back to walking to Port-au-Prince. They have always thought the 10? fare too high for a mere five miles...