Word: sino
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...troops suddenly opened fire with machine guns and mortars on Indian soldiers laying wire at the 14,000-ft.-high Natu Pass. The Indians fired back, and for four days gunfire and cannonades echoed through the thin Himalayan air, causing numerous casualties on both sides. It was the worst Sino-Indian border incident since the Chinese invasion...
...aerospace purchases. Prone to be overexcited by Soviet technical achievements, the magazine supports the establishment of an anti-ballistic missile system. An Air Force intelligence officer in World War II, later public relations director of United Aircraft, Hotz is a superhawk to the point of suggesting that the Sino-Soviet split may be a ruse to lull the U.S. into a false sense of security...
Bogunovic's ouster is a loss for China-watchers everywhere-capitalist, Titoist, Moscow-revisionist. They had come to rely on him for perhaps the most accurate and detailed dispatches out of China. In 1960, he first reported the sure sign of a Sino-Soviet split: an exodus of Russian technicians. In 1966, he was the first to report the downfall of the once-powerful Peking mayor, Peng Chen. While other China-based correspondents hesitated, he reported flatly that Lin Piao had been picked as Mao's successor...
...stay-at-home quality of their history. It is the center of things; China is not a place you want to go away from, it is a place to stay in. If you go out, you're going to the barbarian outside, where there's nothing. Chinese culture is Sino-centric, and today the people are still concerned with what's going on inside the country. They wish the outside would disappear and not bother them. This is very different from a seafaring country including not only the Japanese, ourselves and the British--but all these countries around the world...
...Vote on Vietnam Group was organized by three members of the Progressive Labor Party, a Marxist-Leninist organization that sides with Peking in the Sino-Soviet rift over coexistence vs. revolution. Although nearly all of their 50 canvassers describe themselves as "independent radicals," the wording of the petition largely reflects PL's philosophy, especially in its appeal to the working class...