Word: tung
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...statement is true, but Marcos would probably not be offended by it. The contemporary world figure admired most by both Marcos and Imelda is China's Chairman Mao Tse-tung (see story page 22). Reason: Mao, as the President puts it, united "800 million volatile and historically disparate and separated people." Except for the population figure, the phrase could equally apply to the Philippines. Marcos also admires another great historical figure. "What was Napoleon's maxim?" he asks rhetorically. " 'The art of power is not how to use your friends but how to use your enemies...
...celebrated the New Year with firecrackers and dragon dances; 1976, the Year of the Dragon, was heralded in Peking last week with a literary event. Newspapers throughout the People's Republic printed two newly released poems by China's No. 1 revolutionary and poet, Chairman Mao Tse-tung. The poems, published one week after the Great Helmsman's 82nd birthday, were written just over ten years ago, as China was about to begin the chaotic Cultural Revolution. It seems likely that their release now was intended to recall some of the fervor but none of the violence...
...leaders to the White House for some early-morning coffee and firsthand reports on his travels. But the 22 top Republicans who gathered round the huge mahogany table in the Cabinet Room were not eager to hear about the President's chat with China's Mao Tse-tung (see story page 26). Nor was the Pacific Doctrine, which Ford enunciated in Hawaii, their main interest, even though it was a good restatement of U.S. policy and may well be helpful in reassuring Asian allies after the Viet Nam defeat. What was on the Republicans' minds was politics...
...visit with Mao Tse-tung, who rules nearly a quarter of humanity, remains one of this world's most intriguing human encounters. Gerald Ford, who is the world's most powerful man, was anxious to meet the Chairman, but he was not even certain Mao would see him in Peking. Nothing had been asked or promised when Ford embarked on his journey to China...
Peter Principle to absurdity. Thus the mere invitation to a far capital becomes the message, the hours spent in conference with old adversaries more the measure of success than what was said. Nobody has yet been told what Chairman Mao Tse-tung said to Ford, but we all have been bludgeoned with the fact that the meeting lasted an hour and 50 minutes, the longest audience Mao has granted this year...