Word: sen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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CHINA IS A piece of meat," Sun Yat-sen once said. "And the whole world wants to take a bit of it." At the 1973 Chinese Communist Party conference sixty years later, Chou Enlai echoed this statement of the Father of the Republic, but added that those who might seek to nourish themselves on China's wealth will find that the piece of meat has grown tough. This new toughness may well be the greatest change the People's Republic has caused--one Nationalist who visited China last year grudgingly admitted, "For the first time in over a century, Chinese...
...Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D-Mass.) accused the Nixon administration Saturday of taking a "false public stand" on the issue of campaign financing reform and said the White House has "frustrated every effort to end the kind of abuses which occurred...
...Sen. Joseph Biden (D-Del.), who also addressed the conference, sharply disagreed with Kennedy. "The Democratic party can't win the coming elections on pointing the finger at Republicans for Watergate," he said. "Watergate has made the average slob suspicious of all politicians--Democrats, too--and we all have to prove our honesty if our institutions are to survive...
...much to mold the destiny of the oil-thirsty world. Perhaps more than any other ruler, King Feisal ibn Abdul Aziz al Saud, 67, is a living symbol of the idiosyncracies and aspirations of his country. To the Saudis, he is a kind of Winston Churchill or Sun Yat-sen and, in the best sense, a godfather...
Simes attacked Sen. William J. Fulbright (D-Ark.) for advocating U.S. interference in Israel's domestic affairs and contrasted that stand with Fulbright's opposition to a "detente with civil rights" that would mean "interference in Soviet domestic affairs...