Word: westerners
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...seem terribly wild about the food." The scholars saw a bit of TV. Said Chemical Engineer Hsü Hsien, after seeing his first U.S. commercials: "I enjoy watching them. It is a sign of American culture, isn't it?" The visitors were also introduced to the mysteries of Western pantyhose by Newsweek Correspondent Mary Lord, who, with a thigh, explained her coverage...
...scholars were warmly welcomed wherever they went, but are taking no chances. Just in case they cannot adapt easily to Western ways, they brought along their woks...
...sloop, under full sail, runs aground on the western shore of Chesapeake Bay. No one is aboard the vessel, which contains CIA papers and sophisticated radio gear. One week later a bloated body is found in the bay. There is a bullet wound behind the left ear. Two diving belts weighing 38 lbs. are strapped to its waist. The body is identified as that of the sloop's owner, John Arthur Paisley, 55, a former deputy director of the CIA's Office of Strategic Research...
With that objective achieved, next on Hanoi's list could be the pro-Western government in Bangkok. "The big question now," says a State Department official, "is whether Viet Nam will be tempted in the future to push farther, perhaps into Thailand." Thai military leaders last week were spending long "crisis hours" at their desks, and one general even dusted off an old contingency plan that calls for a pre-emptive Thai invasion of the Cambodian centers of Sisophon and Battambang as a buffer against any Vietnamese advance. Publicly, however, Bangkok authorities preferred to appear unconcerned. At his press...
Arriving in Peking the next day, Sihanouk embraced old friends, including several Western correspondents. Giddy with the sense of release, he later treated the press to an extraordinary news conference. For almost six hours, he talked, now giggling, now pouting, now scowling, jumping up and down from his chair. He sent out for sandwiches to feed the reporters, and went on and on. He denounced the new Hanoi-backed regime in Phnom-Penh, but he was frank to admit his differences with Pol Pot. "I do not approve of his internal policies, his violation of human rights," Sihanouk said...