Word: sino
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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BACK in 1963, before going on to our Tokyo and Moscow bureaus, Jerrold Schecter enrolled in seminars on Sino-Soviet Relations and Defense Policy at Har vard, where he was spending a year as a Nieman fellow. His teacher: a brilliant 40-year-old professor of government from Germany named Henry Kissinger...
...document ran for ten pages, single-spaced, and contained nothing but lists of items broken down into 142 categories. Yet when it was released by the White House last week, it spoke eloquently of the extent to which the U.S. is willing to move toward a relaxation of Sino-American relations. The catalogue of items that American businessmen may sell to Peking without Washington's approval-some 1,000 in all-represents an end to the 21-year-old U.S. prohibition against direct trade with Communist-ruled China...
Drawing Distinctions. U.S. planners tried to make the Chinese and Soviet lists as identical as possible. They knew that even the slightest disparity would offend Peking and buttress Chinese suspicion that the U.S. and Russia are partners in a conspiracy to keep China economically and militarily weak. At present, Sino-American trade amounts to only about $3.5 million in indirect deals mainly for chemicals and diesel engines. Chinese trade officials in Hong Kong have told U.S. businessmen that they do not expect any significant increase in U.S.-China trade until the political problems, notably Taiwan, are solved...
...Communists control very little territory in South Viet Nam, during the past year they have dramatically expanded their control over parts of Laos and Cambodia. In fact, the North Vietnamese army (NVA) now controls more real estate on the borders of Viet Nam than ever before. From the Sino-Laotian frontier in the north to the tiny crossroads town of Snuol in the south, Hanoi's troops are masters of an area that measures 840 miles long and 250 miles wide at its broadest point...
...University Symposia, open to the public: 1) "The Future of Sino-Soviet Relations," in Paine Hall. With John K. Fairbank '29, Higginson Professor of History; Richard E. Pipes, professor of History; James C. Thomson, lecturer on History, and Adam B. Ulam, professor of Government. 2) "Politics 1972: The Road to Conventions," in Lowell Lecture Hall. With Osborn Elliott '46, editor of Newsweek; Francis W. Hatch Jr. '46, Massachusetts Representative; E. J. Kahn '37; and Lawrence E. Spivak '21, producer of Meet the Press. 3) "CostInflation in Higher Education: Effects and Prospects." in Harvard Hall 104. With William L. Bruce, vice...