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...Chinese artillery, which has lobbed 575,000 shells into Quemoy since August, has posed nightmare problems to Director Tsao Yi-fan, 48, and Editor Huang Pang-fu, 35. Three months ago Cheng Ch'i's two-story headquarters in downtown Quemoy City took a direct hit, but the paper came out next day right on schedule. Subscribers on the outlying islands-Little Quemoy, Tatan and Erhtan-must now depend on irregular deliveries by carrier frogmen. On Quemoy proper, delivery boys peddle the paper by jeep and bicycle and on foot, generally get the job done by midmorning despite...
Kill That Tiger! The xenophobia that in 1793 led the Emperor Ch'ien Lung to consider British Ambassador Lord Macartney a "Red barbarian bearing tribute," is still very much alive in China. "Westerners," says Foreign Minister Chen Yi, smiling faintly, "used to say Chinese were dirty. We were called an inferior race. Are we inferior...
Whoopie ti yi yo, Git along, little dogies, It's your misfortune And none...
...served five times as Premier, rules the country whether in office or out) was back from a long vacation in France, 20 pounds lighter and with some brisk new ideas. Calling his Sangkum Party to a convention in Pnompenh, he listened patiently while Sangkum Party Secretary Ek Yi Oun accused the Secretary of Agriculture of having organized a bacchanal, complete with prostitutes, for the National Assembly (retorted the Agriculture Secretary: "I organized the party, all right, but you brought the girls"). Then Sihanouk got to what was on his mind...
...girl was 19, and a princess-Aishinkakura Eisei, niece of Henry Pu Yi, the Japanese puppet "Emperor of Manchukuo [Manchuria]," who is now a prisoner of the Chinese Reds. The boy: spectacled Takemichi Okubo, 20, the son of a railroad executive. Both were students at Gakushuin University in Tokyo...