Word: tse-tung
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With one hand lifting up the falling sky, with the other holding up a glinting scimitar, by one lightning stroke he shakes the whole earth." Thus, in language that might have made Mao Tse-tung blush, does one popular song in North Korea stress the godlike omnipotence of President Kim II Sung, 67. As shrewd and tough as he is vainglorious, Kim since 1948 has been the dictator of a belligerent, doctrinaire state that for sheer xenophobia is rivaled only by Albania inside the Communist world. In pursuit of his goal of reuniting the Korean peninsula under his rule...
Much as it first breached the Bamboo Curtain of Mao Tse-tung's China in 1971, Ping Pong served the cause of diplomacy last week and opened a crack in the very closed door of another Communist Asian country: North Korea. To the cheers of waving schoolchildren lining scrubbed and decorated streets, 900 table-tennis players from 70 countries-including the U.S., but not South Korea and Israel-arrived in Pyongyang for a 13-day world championship. TIME Tokyo Bureau Chief Edwin Reingold was among the few Western journalists in North Korea. His report from the rarely glimpsed capital...
...French Revolution. Throughout history, revolution has al most always been followed by a period of vengeance and terror in the name of justice. The American Revolution was a notable exception. But by comparison with the mass bloodshed that followed the French and Russian revolutions, not to mention Mao Tse-tung's conquest of China, the summary actions of Iran's new Islamic Revolutionary Court might even be considered restrained...
...observe law and order, behave politely and "cherish public property." In Sichuan (Szechwan), the authorities denounced "muddled ideas and unhealthy trends" among "some young people." In Henan (Honan), the Provincial Revolutionary Committee decreed a "total ban" on posters and other publications that criticized socialism, Communist Party leadership or Mao Tse-tung's thought. In Peking, foreign residents learned that Chinese would henceforth be forbidden to make contact with them unless instructed to do so. All across China, party leaders were cracking down on the kind of free expression that had been openly encouraged only five months...
...form than the traditional Wade-Giles system, which employs apostrophes and hyphens. Examples: Hua Guofeng instead of Hua Kuofeng; Deng Xiaoping instead of Teng Hsiao-p'ing. Initially, TIME plans to use the Pinyin spellings with the conventional Wade-Giles rendering in parentheses. There will be exceptions. Mao Tse-tung (Mao Zedong in Pinyin) and other familiar figures of history will not appear in their Pinyin form. Nor will such widely used place names as Peking (Beijing in Pinyin), Canton (Guangzhou), Tibet (Xizang) or Hong Kong (Xianggang). China will remain China, and not become Zhongguo...