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Career Diplomat Fu Hao is an expert in Asian affairs. An Chih-yuan was Peking's chargé in Moscow when Sino-Soviet relations were descending to their invective-filled worst. Garrulous Tang Ming-chao got a degree from the University of California and edited a small pro-Communist daily in New York City before returning to China in 1949; he has been a greeter of foreign VIPs in Peking and a traveling agitator, plugging the Communist line at one "youth conference" or antiwar rally after another despite his age (he is now 61). Hsiung Hsiang-hui, 52, picked...
Other leading scholars include the University of Chicago's Political Scientist Tang Tsou, author of a provocative analysis of U.S. failures to understand China during and after World War II; Chicago Historian Ping-ti Ho, an authority on social mobility and population trends; and A. Doak Barnett, now at Washington, D.C.'s Brookings Institution, a protean expert on Chinese government and foreign policy. Barnett long urged a U.S. China policy of "containment without isolation...
...member of the class was assassinated -Yii Loo Tang, who met his demise while working for the Nationalist Chinese Minister of Finance...
...shoe salesman to help rehabilitate other addicts. As far as heroin is concerned, he is clean. Still, Dan Smith (not his real name) is an addict of sorts. Every morning he stops at Manhattan's Beth Israel Medical Center to down a cup of Tang spiked with methadone, a synthetic drug that he takes to overcome his craving for heroin...
...mile stretch of Route 6 to Kompong Thorn, whose overland links have been cut for months. Only 17 miles along Route 6, which stretches like a muddy arrow through the countryside's monsoon-flooded paddies, the force ran into heavy enemy resistance at the hamlet of Tang Kauk. After losing 19 dead and 124 wounded in an eight-hour firefight, the government forces fell back to regroup. Closing in, Communist sappers blew up bridges in front and behind the column. Temporarily marooned, the humbled task force retreated two miles. At week's end, as the task force repaired...