Word: weis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Died. Wei Li-huang, 64, wily Chinese Nationalist general who, after chopping up the Japanese in World War II and keeping the Communists at bay in the civil war that followed, inexplicably pulled out of a strongly fortified position in Manchuria at a crucial point in the war and went to live quietly in Hong Kong until 1955, when the Communists persuaded him to propagandize for them; of pneumonia; in Peking...