Word: sino
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Schlesinger's long-suffering efforts to purge the State Department of jargon. And yet one wonders if his attitude is not indicative of something more than concern about style. A case in point is his memorandum to the Secretariat to the effect that those who use the term 'Sino-Soviet bloc' "don't know what is going on in the world." It is diverting to speculate upon the reaction at Harvard if a visiting professor were to write a memorandum to the History Department stating that he assumed every one knew that the word "charisma"--to pick...
...bloc Communism has become a weird conglomeration of Marxist remnants, state socialism with tentative injections of free enterprise, and above all, nationalism. In today's polycentric Eastern Europe, once tightly controlled satellites have developed what De Gaulle might call a Communisme des patries. All this has only exacerbated Sino-Soviet antagonisms. Red China's rulers, fiercely determined to preserve ideological purity against Muscovite "revisionism," are bound to remain cruel and spartan. Contemptuous of Soviet policies, obdurate in its distrust of anything resembling capitalist methods, insistent on violence, China is irreversibly committed to the notion of central direction...
Communism may no longer have a single line or direction, but it remains highly organized, aggressively international, and more intensely competitive than ever as a result of Sino-Soviet rivalry. Though the Cominform (successor to the Comintern) was dissolved in 1956, control over the worldwide Communist movement is still vested in special departments of the Soviet and Chinese Central Committees. Of the world's 105 Communist Parties, Moscow can count on 72, as against 21 for Peking. Twelve other Communist Parties-mostly in Western Europe-are vaguely independent. In 1964, foreign aid by Communist countries amounted to $1.7 billion...
Congress. With Russia's Leonid Brezhnev and Peking's Party Secretary Teng Hsiao-Ping attending, Bucharest had been billed as a head-on Sino-Soviet verbal slugfest. But the Rumanians attached "keep quiet" stickers to each invitation, and the result was a collection of docile guests whose most exciting time at the meeting was a five-hour, 93-page declaration of independence by their host, Ceausescu, that went considerably beyond anything Gheorghiu-Dej ever bruited...
...next became bold enough to make overtures to the West. Without waiting for the Soviets, he expanded Galati by signing a $42 million contract for a steel plant with a British-French combine. The Sino-Soviet split gave Dej another chance to twist the bear's tail. Rumania's Premier Ion Maurer winged off to Peking last year and agreed to boost trade with the Chinese Communists by 10% . He stopped off in the Soviet Union on the way back and kindly volunteered to "mediate" Sino-Soviet differences, while back in Bucharest, Russian bookstores were being closed...