Word: sino
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...candles, nor was it entirely a matter of trying to counteract the emotions stirred up by the Kennedy visit. Most of all, Khrushchev wanted to meet with his East European satellite chiefs to close ranks before the Chinese arrive in Moscow this week to confer on the worsening Sino-Soviet ideological split...
...least from among early arrivals: Rumanian Red Boss Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej, who is not only feuding with Moscow over economic planning but is warm toward Peking, allowed its manifesto to appear in the Rumanian press. What confronted the small-scale Red summit meeting was the picture of the Sino-Soviet rift tearing into the Communist fabric all over the world...
Nikita Khrushchev had more reasons last week to wonder why he ever invited a Red Chinese delegation to Moscow. Twenty-five reasons, to be exact, all neatly numbered in a letter for convenient "point-by-point discussion" at the scheduled Sino-Soviet meeting next week. Mao Tse-tung's latest message to Nikita-the most vehement to date in the continuing quarrel-doomed the confrontation to failure before it began. Peking deliberately left the Kremlin no room for compromise. After years of discussion over whether the split was real, Western skeptics could no longer doubt that it was deep...
...first American journalist since the 1949 Revolution to revisit China with the permission of both the U.S. State Department and the Chinese government, he again enjoyed a monopoly of first hand information. Judging by the tone of his book, Snow seemed to hope that his trip would reopen Sino-American channels of communication...
Though Khrushchev was surely under pressure, he did not act like a fellow on the skids. He sent a note to his poison pen pal Mao Tse-tung politely declining Mao's invitation to talk over the Sino-Soviet split in Peking (TIME, March 22). Instead he invited Mao or a group of colleagues to Moscow. Suggested time for the confrontation of quarreling Communists: in the spring or summer, "which are good seasons of the year in our country...