Word: sino
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Sihanouk appointed him Under Secretary of State for Commerce. Samphan's reason for accepting, according to younger brother Khieu Seng Kim: "From the Cabinet, he felt he could protect his leftist group." Samphan soon found himself courted by wealthy businessmen. The brother recalls: "One day a Sino-Khmer merchant came to our house with a package for him. It was full of money. Later at dinner, he said that 'if you take money from the capitalists, you have to work for them. Then you're a traitor to the people because the capitalists are the enemies...
Soft Hats. Widespread corruption has squelched whatever hope there may have once been among the people to control their own destinies. Foreign diplomats speak openly of the "military Mafia"-high-ranking officers who sell deferments to rich Sino-Khmer fathers and draw the pay of thousands of phantom troops on their rolls. Out on Route 5 and Highway 7, and down in besieged Neak Luong, government soldiers are fighting the war in rubber sandals and soft hats. One corporal complained about the lack of boots and fatigues and how corrupt officers tried to make his wife pay 5,000 riels...
...soon as Henry Kissinger finished shepherding President Ford through Tokyo, Seoul and Vladivostok, the Secretary of State embarked by himself on another diplomatic tour, this one to China. It is Kissinger's seventh trip to Peking since he helped open the Sino-American dialogue in July 1971. Chances are he will find China's leaders more troubled and uncertain than on any of his previous visits...
...this day, the name of the city sounds provocative to Chinese ears, and even though Communists have replaced monarchs in both Moscow and Peking, conflicting claims on Vladivostok and the surrounding Maritime Province have flared up frequently during the Sino-Soviet quarrel. In March 1963, the Chinese newspaper The People's Daily attacked the Kremlin for retaining control over land that "Russian imperialists" had acquired by "unequal and temporary treaties...
...radicals' arguments-after all, it was Mao who plunged China into the reckless adventure of the Cultural Revolution with the call "Bombard the party headquarters!" But Mao also clearly approved such departures from ideological purity as Chou's openness toward Japan and the West. Indeed, Sino-American relations, though cautious on cultural exchanges, have blossomed in the area of trade; the U.S. is now China's second-largest trading partner, after Japan. (By contrast, the Soviet Union inspires only fear in China -enough to prompt continued building of vast air-raid shelters in many of China...