Word: sino
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Despite the confused reports concerning the recent fighting on the Sino-Indian border, one thing is clear: the Chinese have been planning their offensive for some time. The skill and effectiveness with which they deployed their troops over rugged Himalayan terrain indicates a carefully prepared battle scheme...
...over what they really should or could do about Cuba, but mainly over whether or not they should try to issue a communique. Although one was finally produced, it was hardly calculated to cause even one grey hair in Castro's beard. It recognized the obvious-that "the Sino-Soviet intervention in Cuba is an attempt to convert the island into an armed base for Communist penetration of the Americas and subversion of the democratic institutions of the hemisphere...
...cultural troupe of the People's Navy offered a historical drama, "Naval Battle of 1894 Sino-Japanese War." Peking Review describes it in one convoluted sentence: "Despite the bravery of its men, the Peiyang Squadron of the Chinese Navy is defeated by the Japanese fleet as a result of the betrayal of the capitulationist clique of the Ching court working in collusion with foreign imperialists...
...more than a million sales, was "Red Crag," by Lo Kuang-pin and Yang Yi-yen. This 420,000-word blockbuster, set in Chungking in 1949, "describes the bitter struggle between the people and the U.S.-Chiang reactionaries." Its critical scenes occur "behind the bars of the so-called Sino-American Co-operation Organization (SACO), a big concentration camp jointly operated by the U.S. imperialists' secret service and its lackeys, the Chiang gang. They use all the most diabolical means of torture to crush the will of the captured Communists...
...verge of collapse." He is certain that morale on the mainland is at its lowest ebb, cites information relayed by a recently defected Communist MIG pilot and letters received on Formosa from peasants in the coastal province of Fukien who pleaded for liberation. Moreover, argues Chiang, the Sino-Soviet split has be come such a bitter personal rivalry between Mao Tse-tung and Khrushchev that the Soviet leader probably would not run the risk of touching off a general nuclear war by coming to Mao's aid. Concludes Chiang: this is the "chance of a lifetime" that may never...