Word: tien
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...press, harried by censorship, grows bitter. The Roman Catholic Témoignage Chrétien charges that De Gaulle "has managed the incredible tour de force of uniting against him irreconcilable enemies on the left and right." Last month, 15,000 Parisians-some but by no means all of them left-wingers-demonstrated against the S.A.O., but were brutally clubbed from the streets by police. In reply to protests, the Interior Ministry explained that the government's policy was to show suspicious French army officers that De Gaulle is as anti-Communist as they...
...Communist films and propaganda. They show happy, husky children gamboling in village nurseries, smiling Kazakh herdsmen shearing fat sheep on the Altinshoki steppes, clear-eyed workmen scrambling among the wooden scaffolding of a thousand construction sites. Important guests are dazzled by the enormous parades sweeping into Peking's Tien An Men square with a swirling of scarlet flags, the cheerful explosion of strings of firecrackers whirled on poles, the rhythmic thunder of drums and cymbals. Healthy, pig-tailed girls dance by in a flutter of pastel scarves; fit-looking soldiers march past in cadenced columns; phalanxes of workers with...
...Japanese overran the country in the late 19305, he lingered on, clinging to his auto business in Tientsin. Interned after Pearl Harbor, he was repatriated in an exchange of U.S. and Japanese internees in 1943. But at war's end. he hurried back to his business in Tien tsin. His wife Flora remained behind in California with their three children. Mc Cann prospered even through the Chinese civil war. And when the Communists took Tientsin in 1949, McCann again elected to linger on. Confidently he told friends that his business know-how and his line of cars and tractors...
...slings of scorn with patience. The chansonniers were disciplined last month by being barred from the state-owned radio and TV unless they first submitted tape recordings of their songs. The regime has seized editions of various newspapers, ranging from the left-wing Catholic Témoignage Chrétien to the right-wing Ri-varol. Two cartoonists of the prickly, left-center Express-Siné (The French Cat) and Tim-were charged with "publicly insulting the army" in cartoons critical of the Algerian war. Oddly, the Moscow-financed Communist press, despite its noisy demands for peace in Algeria, remains...
...didn't go back before to avoid increasing the Communist persecution of the mainland priests," said Cardinal Tien last week. "But now the situation could not be worse, and perhaps my return will give the Catholics moral encouragement...