Word: weis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...drive to broaden its base among the Taiwanese is also paying off in Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's 650,000-man military establishment-the only force in the free world engaged in a continuous, if sporadic, shooting war with Red China. Under Harvard-educated Defense Minister Yu Ta-wei, a mainlander, a U.S.-styled recruitment and training program has been set up which in less than a year has brought in enough young native Taiwanese soldiers to lower the average age in Chiang's army from...
Flaming Youth. In Pingtung, Formosa, arrested for repeatedly trying to burn down his dormitory, 20-year-old Student Chen Wei-juo told police: "I wanted to destroy it because I can't have late dates with girls as long as I live there." Moral Victory. In Corning, Calif., Warren B. Woodson complained he was unjustly fined $11 for passing over a double line, retaliated by giving the police department 60 days to move their headquarters from the building that he owns...
Retired Nationalist General Yu Ching-man lacked the high distinction of his Hong Kong neighbor General Wei Li-huang, who defected to the Communists last March. Nevertheless, as a onetime commander of the Nationalist 26th Army in Yunnan and leader of the long-drawn-out defense of Changteh against the Japanese in 1943, he was a soldier worth wooing to any cause. He had prospered outside Red China with his investments in Hong Kong real estate, in Macao fisheries and Chinese trading firms...
Recently, General Yu received a secret visit from old friend and new Communist, General Wei, who came back under an assumed name to stir up other defections. Soon afterward, General Yu received a visit from another old friend, General Li Mi, onetime commander of Nationalist troops in Burma, who now occasionally visits Hong Kong incognito from Formosa. Both left his house without any commitment from General Yu and presumably without any certainty that Yu had not committed himself to the other...
Today the Red squeeze is on. One prominent American-trained psychologist, Lu Chih-wei, was liquidated when he refused to sign an anti-American testimonial; others have been pressured into phony confessions and self-ridicule. What hurts most is the enforcement of Communism's concept of science as a political and social weapon rather than a "bourgeois" search for truth. Meteorologists were ordered to "learn from Chairman Mao's statement on party doctrine." At a conference of mathematicians, one topic was "How to Realize Patriotism Through Education in Mathematics." At another meeting, the president of the Society...