Word: sino
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...combination of Hofstra complacency and a superior performance by George Baker at 142 lbs. netted the Crimson three points. Baker topped Hiddyaka Sino, who was second in the AAU nationals last year...
...October 1860, English and French troops occupied Peking and burned the Summer Palace--almost a ritual of earlier barbarian invasions--after the Imperial Court arrested British envoy Harry Parkes. Each year brought more evidence of China's military inferiority. A most humiliating defeat came in 1894 with the Sino-Japanese War. Losing to their despised neighbors finally awakened China's educated class to the Middle Kingdom's vulnerability in much the same way as the American, English, French and Dutch bombardments in 1863 and 1864 aroused Japan...
...ancient dictum that has survived is the strategy of using "barbarians to control barbarians," especially since the growth of Sino-Soviet tensions. China now seems to be ready to use this tactic more agressively than it ever did during the Empire...
...since 1970 and a lawyer who wrote a pioneering study in 1965 on the legal problems of outer space; after a short illness; in Rome. -Died. Arthur Menken, 69, newsreel photographer who covered the Italian invasion of Ethiopia, the Spanish Civil War, the siege of Nanking during the Second Sino-Japanese War, and the Battle of Britain for Paramount, the March of Time and the Columbia Broadcasting System; of a liver ailment; in Florence, Italy...
...celebration in the Chinese embassy in Moscow last week and proclaimed: "I am still optimistic." He was referring to the prospects of a break in the marathon dispute between the two Communist giants, but his hope must have been fed by the convivial atmosphere. In fact, signs of a Sino-Soviet thaw are about as scarce as palm trees in Peking or Moscow...