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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Chang Wen-chin, director of the foreign ministry's American, Western European and Australasian sections. Chang has served as Ambassador to Pakistan and as head of the ministry's Asian section. He accompanied Chou to the 1954 Geneva negotiations on Indochina. Moscow-educated, he is also fluent in English and has served as Chou's English-language interpreter. He is likely to head the ministry's new North American department...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: The Supporting Cast in Peking | 2/28/1972 | See Source »

...Wen-sheng, Interpreter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: The Supporting Cast in Peking | 2/28/1972 | See Source »

Whom would Peking send to the U.N.? Conceivably, Chou himself might want to make the grand entrance. Huang Hua, Peking's Ambassador to Ottawa and one of its foremost American watchers, is a likely candidate for the delegation, but not for its leadership. Urbane, soft-spoken Chang Wen-chin, who heads the Peking Foreign Ministry's department of Western European and U.S. affairs, could be the man. But at week's end the leading possibility seemed to be Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs Chiao Kuan-hua, a onetime journalist who speaks fluent English. Chiao has most recently been in charge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: China: A Stinging Victory | 11/8/1971 | See Source »

...kind of ecstatic exuberance-a sort of Oriental forerunner of action painting. The essence of Zen thought is satori -sudden enlightenment. It comes unpredictably; meditation prepares the artist, but guarantees nothing. One ancient monk, Yun-Men, achieved satori when his teacher slammed a door on his foot. Another, Wen-Shu Ssu-yeh, had it while butchering a pig, and celebrated the occasion in verse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Sudden Enlightenment | 12/14/1970 | See Source »

...wen't for it and hit two of my best shots," Arnie Palmer told Joe Concannon of the Boston Globe. "I made it. I hit that ball as hard as I could hit it. I haven't really come to a decision as to what I'll do in the tournament. . . It could mean two to four shots' difference in four rounds," he added...

Author: By Martin R. Garay iii, | Title: The Masters Opens, but. . . Golf Team Cancels Match; Courses Are Still Closed | 4/9/1970 | See Source »

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