Word: waded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Collection Center for Captured Vietnamese," as the Chinese quaintly called the first camp, was located at Baise in the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, some 60 miles north of the Vietnamese border. At first sight, reported one of the English-language journalists present, Nigel Wade of the London Daily Telegraph, it resembled nothing so much as a busy secondary school during recess. Prisoners in Chinese-supplied blue suits and caps were playing soccer, badminton and tug-of-war. The food seemed plentiful and nutritious. There was no barbed wire or watchtower, and only one visible armed sentry, at the main gate...
...aggressor" in the war, while a further 60% were inclined toward this view. Only 10%, he claimed, were still "stubborn" in their insistence that China was at fault. Some visiting journalists were annoyed at being used to transmit Chinese statements about the prisoners' attitude toward their own country. Wade protested that the Vietnamese would "almost certainly execute or severely punish these prisoners" after they were repatriated. Replied Wang: "I am just telling you the facts. It's up to you what you do with them...
Chinese TV crews frequently shadowed the visiting journalists as they interviewed the Vietnamese, trying to obtain film footage for propaganda purposes. The Vietnamese would often cringe when the TV lights came on, and the reporters shouted for the Chinese camera crews to stop. They did so. Wade, who along with others threatened to leave the tour unless the Chinese stopped filming the correspondents, later wrote that the visit had been "journalistically unsatisfactory and ethically disturbing." That tough judgment may cause the Chinese to pause before making any further attempts to enlist foreigners in their verbal clashes with Hanoi...
After stealing a service break to take the first set from Weise and Wade Batterton, the Crimson tandem broke Weise's serve at 6-5 to send the second set to a breaker. With Batterton serving at four-all. Shaw returned two backhands from the ad-court, then hit a high forehand volley that Weise leaped for but netted. Point, game, set, match, and team match...
...said publications from Taiwan would retain the Wade-Giles system "since Taiwan doesn't want to follow any system of the Chinese...