Word: sino
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...foreign correspondent; through the Cuban embassy in Argentina, Kung's men dispense propaganda leaflets and arrange tours to China (120 visitors in 1958, 250 last year) for Argentine lawyers, doctors, newspapermen and artists. In Uruguay it all began in December 1958 with a Chinese circus. Then came the Sino-Uruguayan Cultural Association and the regular exchange of "cultural groups." Now the government is under heavy pressure from liberal groups to vote for China's admission to the United Nations...
...refugee scholars guard a treasure: the tradition of humanistic and rationalistic China. But Formosa is losing intellectuals so fast that the tradition is endangered. Last week, at the University of Washington in Seattle, 100 Chinese and U.S. scholars discussed ways of saving it in a five-day Sino-American Conference on Intellectual Cooperation. Chief recommendation: fast aid from U.S. universities and foundations as well as the Government, which has given Formosa huge sums for military defense but little for mental development...
...first Mao often intervened grandly in Communist Europe-at one point to back the Poles against Kremlin pressures, later to help Khrushchev when his authority tottered after the Hungarian revolt, and finally to lead the 1958 outcry against Tito's deviation from the true faith. But as the Sino-Soviet pact became ten years old, it was Johnny-Come-Lately Nikita Khrushchev who had to go to China's rescue. It had been a disastrous year for China: troubles in the communes, the bloody repression of Tibet, Peking's maladroit handling of India, its antagonizing of Burma...