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Traditionally in China, sons were desired as heirs and daughters thought worthless. "We have changed our attitudes about having sons," said Yu Shi-teh, my interpreter in Shanghai. "Now the state provides for our old age, and we no longer look to our children to care for us." Asked what career aspirations they held for their sons, Chinese invariably answered that "the choice is up to the state. Whatever will serve the state will be good for my child...
...formal schooling. Early returns counted last week showed that Papua New Guineans had decided to take on self-government-or so it seemed. The conservative, white-dominated United Party, which had sent sound trucks through the main towns with the message in pidgin "My fella vote Unided Pati, yu fella vote Unided Pati," lost some seats it had held in the last Assembly, and emerged without a majority. The Pangu Pati (acrophonetic pidgin for Papua New Guinea Party), which draws its strength from the radical young black elite of the coastal cities and favors immediate self-government, gained ground, leading...
...greeted by the vice commander of the division, Keng Yu-chi, 42, who lectures forcefully on the work of the division among the masses and its role in productive labor...
...Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, Peking and Ottawa announced that they would establish diplomatic relations immediately. Trudeau had also agreed to break off relations with Nationalist China, but Taipei beat him to the punch. Just before the new Peking-Ottawa link was announced, Taiwan's Ambassador Hsueh Yu-chi severed his country's diplomatic ties with Canada and took leave of the country in a tearful farewell scene...
...Time meant lives! Without a moment's hesitation, Comrade Chang Yu-liang jumped in. Chang Yu-liang took hold of Peasant Liu Kung-chen and used every ounce of strength to pass him up to the mouth of the pit. As he turned around and reached out to save the other peasant, he was overcome by the poisonous gas and fell into the pit with a splash." Thus did Chang meet his end, observed the People's Daily, sacrificing "his life in order to save his class brothers...