Word: tsao
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...factories and rail communications. Wall posters (see box) reported one incident in which anti-Mao mobs stormed the cabinet building and "bloody clashes ensued." Premier Chou En-lai addressed a group of railway men, urging that service be restored; he also complained that Railways Minister Lu Cheng-tsao had been held captive by the workers for five days...
...Edouard Herriot, mayor of industrial Lyon and afterward Premier of France. Li attended the College de Montargis, 65 miles south of Paris, where he alternated four hours of study a day with four hours' work in the field. Li seemed so immature that his fellow students called him tsao-pao (bundle of straw). He had no particular distaste for work-he was just not very good at it. After Montargis, he briefly held jobs at the Renault and Schneider-Creusot factories...
...captured when the U.S.A.F. plane in which they were passengers was shot down in 1952 over North Korea (according to the U.S.), over Red China (according to the Red Chinese). Downey is serving a life sentence, Fecteau 20 years, both on a charge of espionage, in Peking's Tsao Lan-tzu prison. ¶Businessman Hugh Francis Redmond Jr., 41, arrested in 1951 in Shanghai, subsequently sentenced to life imprisonment, also on an espionage charge. He is in a Shanghai jail...