Word: shied
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...There are differences even in religion. Most Arabs belong to the dominant Sunnite branch of Islam; Iranians adhere to the smaller Shi'ite sect...
...Kuomintang army, swelled by local recruits, have plied the opium trade ever since they gave up trying to harass the Chinese Communists 25 years ago. Last year, Bangkok and the U.S. paid the Kuomintang's two most powerful leaders, General Li Wen-huan and General Tuan Shi-wen, nearly $2,000,000 to get out of the opium traffic. Thai authorities believe that they have not yet ceased their trading. They will be the next targets of the crackdown...
...world and that of the West. Some unusual glimpses, however, were recently accorded TIME's Canadian National Correspondent James Wilde, who accompanied a trade and diplomatic delegation from Ottawa on a ten-day tour of China. During an evening of conversation at a restaurant overlooking Peking's Shi Cha Hai lake, a high-ranking official and party member who asked to remain anonymous talked at length and with uncommon frankness to Wilde. Excerpts...
Traditionally in China, sons were desired as heirs and daughters thought worthless. "We have changed our attitudes about having sons," said Yu Shi-teh, my interpreter in Shanghai. "Now the state provides for our old age, and we no longer look to our children to care for us." Asked what career aspirations they held for their sons, Chinese invariably answered that "the choice is up to the state. Whatever will serve the state will be good for my child...
...speculates that Lin Piao fell from favor because he was in sympathy with the U.S.S.R. Lin Piao was the acknowledged leader of the Left forces who unleashed the Cultural Revolution. Before him there was Liu Chao Shi who was denounced because he was in sympathy with the Soviet Union. But Liu was the acknowledged leader of the right-wing forces. Never mind the contradiction. After all, Mao Tse Tung believes in contradiction, if simple logic does not. But how could one ever know? Was there open debate? Was there party democracy? Has he read Lin's documents...