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Another honoree who overcame racial prejudices was Dr. Chine-Shiung Wu, a nuclear physicist from Columbia University who came to the United States from China in 1936 Wu said. "A scientist's life is really wonderful...
...story of the night of the coup and there may never be. Ye Jianying and Li Xiannian, both old marshals, led the coup. But I rest my knowledge only on the sum phrases I squeezed out of the deputy chief of staff of the army at the time?General Wu Xiuquan, now retired and old. "We controlled the garrison," he said. "We moved into Zhongnanhai (the imperial quarters). No bloodshed, no resistance. We arrested the four, one by one, in their homes." The people of China had had enough of the madness and violence. Not until six days later...
...American jeep, a favorite vehicle of World War II G.I.s and weekend off-the-road runners, is on the way to China. Last week in Peking, American Motors Chairman Paul Tippett and Wu Zhongliang, general manager of the Peking Automotive Industry Corp., signed an agreement for the joint production of Jeeps in China...
...After a 90-min. meeting, both sides declared that they were optimistic about the future of Sino-Soviet relations. Said TASS: "The Soviet leadership is striving to move these relations onto the track of good neighborliness." Although Huang was replaced as Foreign Minister after his return from Moscow by Wu Xueqian, a former Deputy Foreign Minister, the switch reflected no change in policy...
Huang's successor is Wu Xueqian, at 60 one of China's youngest top officials. A native of Shanghai, Wu speaks English, which he learned as a child at a missionary-run school. Although he moved into the foreign ministry only early this year, he is said to be well versed in foreign affairs, particularly concerning the Third World. Wu Xueqian His best credential, perhaps, is his affiliation with Communist Party Chief Hu Yaobang...