Word: rift
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...many observers felt that they had purposely staged it to give themselves an excuse to take further steps against Russians in China. They hardly needed an excuse. The two governments are denouncing each other with such frequency-and often taking action to match the denunciations-that the Sino-Soviet rift has become a fact of history far more firmly established than the Sino-Soviet bloc ever was. Last week, for example, a meeting of Soviet trade unions branded Mao Tse-tung as "chauvinist, nationalist, anti-Leninist, anti-working class and anti-people." Peking replied that it would "sweep away...
...decided to cast its 70 votes neither for Sato nor for Fujiyama but for its own leader. Together, those defections might cause trouble for Sato in next year's national elections. Though the government's Socialist and Communist opposition is badly split as well, a Liberal Democratic rift could endanger the party's 20 years of postwar rule. To blunt the edge of Fujiyama's thrust, Sato last week promised "sweeping Cabinet reforms" of his own as soon as the party election is past...
...idea of a formal excommunication ceremony to isolate Red China dates from the days of Khrushchev, but the new team of Brezhnev and Kosygin let the matter cool when they took power in 1964, hoping to close the rift. One good reason: the Kremlin knew it could not count on the support of its Communist allies, for party bosses had made clear their opposition to a Soviet blackball of any Red nation...
More objective, perhaps, than Goldman, John Roche allocates blame for the cultural rift equally between the President and the academicians. "From long experience," he says, "I have become convinced that most intellectuals are secret Platonists who feel that some how the messy, human aspects of life and politics should be brought under the control of enlightened men. In their view, politics should be a 'science' and the politician a 'political scientist.' " If the President still cares seriously about resolving the conflicts and getting along with the intellectuals, John Roche may well prove the ideal catalyst...
...while enjoying the American discomfiture, certainly do not want the war to escalate to the point where they will be drawn into it any further. And the Chinese are involved in such a fanatical internal purge that they have sent shivers throughout Asia and further widened the Sino-Soviet rift...