Word: sino
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Despite the successful 1968 suppression of Czechoslovakia, Eastern Europe remains potentially explosive, as the December riots in Poland demonstrated (see page 36). A new exchange of denunciations between Peking and Moscow last week indicated that the Sino-Soviet schism remains as gaping as ever. Furthermore, Brezhnev may be having second thoughts about the wisdom of seeking a détente with West Germany (except on conditions that Bonn cannot accept); possibly Moscow does not really want to give up West Germany as a convenient propaganda whipping boy. Significantly, the Soviets toned down their calls for a Conference on European Security that...
...sect, which is a Pekinglining splinter of India's Communist movement, is known as the Naxalites. Praised by Radio Peking as "the front paw of India's revolution," the Mao-quoting Naxalites pose a fifth-column threat in any new Sino-Indian conflict. They have already staked a violent claim to the allegiance of the docile peasants. In 1967 they masterminded a short-lived but bloody tribal revolt at the foot of the Himalayas near Nepal in the region of Naxalbari-from which the group takes its name. For six weeks bands of peasants armed with guns, spears...
...will aid the Soviet Union in the event of "an armed attack by a state or group of states." Tass, the official Soviet news organization, insists that this would obligate Rumania to help defend against any Chinese attack on Russia; the Rumanians, who have remained determinedly neutral in the Sino-Soviet struggle, point out that the preamble of the treaty limits military obligations to the area covered by the Warsaw Pact -which does not extend beyond Eastern Europe...
...that the Cambodian venture might even give the feuding Soviets and Chinese an area in which they could cooperate-for the first time in a decade. According to reports from Moscow, Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Vasily Kuznetsov, who last week returned to Peking, carried instructions to seek a joint Sino-Soviet approach on Indochina. Furthermore, when North Viet Nam's Party Leader Le Duan left Moscow for Peking after last month's Lenin centennial, he reportedly carried a Soviet suggestion to Chairman Mao that the two countries should get together, at least over Southeast Asia...
...assistance in case of attack, "no matter what state or group of states" is involved. That provision, which the Kremlin wants to insert in the friendship treaties that it has imposed on all the East-bloc countries, would apparently obligate those countries to aid Russia in case of a Sino-Soviet war. Some bloc members, noting that past friendship pacts were designed to foil only "aggression" from the West, are reluctant to comply. Rumania has already indicated dissent...