Word: tung
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hitherto unknown incidents that contributed to the present Moscow-Peking conflict. He provides insights into the Soviet missile buildup, and the mutual suspicions that prevented any Russian-U.S. arms limitations accord. Khrushchev also presents typically blunt assessments of contemporary world political figures he dealt with, including Mao Tse-tung, Dwight Eisenhower, John Kennedy and Richard Nixon...
...remember when] Mao Tse-tung was in Moscow for Stalin's 70th birthday on Dec. 21, 1949. I came up from Kiev and ran into a secretary of the Moscow District party...
...What the hell is a Matsadoon? You must mean Mao Tse-tung...
...Tibet in 1959 by the Chinese Communists. But often the book adds fresh detail. For example, in one of their periodic raids on their homeland, the hardy Tibetans helped resolve a debate that had been going on in CIA headquarters in Washington: they captured documents showing that Mao Tse-tung's Great Leap Forward had been a flop...
...prime example of irrelevant bickering came when Chinese Deputy Premier Teng Hsiao-ping, the highest official of Mao Tse-tung's regime yet to visit North America, launched a vitriolic attack on U.S.-Soviet detente. Teng also lauded the Arab oil embargo, which he said had broken the "international economic monopoly" of the rich nations, and urged producers of other raw materials to emulate it. He drew a surprisingly low-key response from Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, who said that "isolated voices are to be heard that show there are some who have come to the session with...