Word: yun
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...capital city of Peking. From its rugged border with Manchuria, the province runs down in a shelving plain to the shallow Gulf of Chihli. Very few eminent Communists come from Hopeh or its neighboring province of Shansi, which is noted for sacred mountains and such spectacular cave temples as Yun Kang, where a mile-long cliff face has been chiseled into thousands of Buddhist images. Shensi is reverenced as the birthplace of the Chinese nation, and when the country was first unified by the Ch'in dynasty in 221 B.C., its capital was near present-day Sian...
...China's Yang Yun-yu returned the ball to the Soviets by lashing the U.S. for using nuclear blackmail "to enslave the world," attacking John Kennedy for his cunning "strategy" to divide China and the Soviet Union, and insisting that the foremost problem was not peaceful coexistence but maintaining the active struggle against imperialism. "How," she demanded, "can the oppressed coexist with their oppressors?" Lotte Ulbricht replied that Madame Yang was way off base. No one was demanding that oppressed nations live happily with their oppressors, she said, and added that Russia was, as always, "wholeheartedly behind the revolutionary...
...along with some 200 other demonstrators who openly protested South Korean Strongman General Park Chung Hee's broken promise to call general elections in May and hand over power to the civilians. The wholesale arrests only served to attract more attentiom to the noisy campaign of former President Yun Po Sun, 65, and New Rule Party Leader Huh Chung, 67, who touched off the uproar with a series of antigovernment meetings...
Junta leaders were reluctant to arrest Yun and Huh for fear they would become political martyrs. But the men around Park did not hesitate to reject the opposition demands. Defense Minister Kim Sung Un summoned 160 top military men to Seoul for a strategy meeting, later took to a nationwide radio hookup to speak for them: "We strongly support the present government. There are seeds of uneasiness in the country, and this is not the time to transfer the government to civilians.'' Then, to make the point more emphatically, all 160 officers rode grandly through the streets...
...specializing in economics as deputy to Chen Yun, a pragmatic labor organizer from Shanghai. With the Red conquest of the mainland, Li became Minister of Heavy Industry, and went to Moscow in 1950 to help negotiate a 30-year treaty of alliance with Joseph Stalin. In 1953 Li signed the pact under which the Soviet Union agreed to supply money and materiel for China's first Five-Year Plan. His reward was promotion to Chairman of the State Planning Commission...