Word: yunnan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Vietnamese nurses to carry on their work; last week they left Viet Nam. But for many of them, only a short vacation was ahead. Next stop: Viet Nam's neighbor, Laos, where five centers will be set up 100 miles apart, in the jungles stretching to the unmapped Yunnan border. For Laos, too, is underdoctored, and threatened with a repetition of Viet Nam's medical crisis...
Retired Nationalist General Yu Ching-man lacked the high distinction of his Hong Kong neighbor General Wei Li-huang, who defected to the Communists last March. Nevertheless, as a onetime commander of the Nationalist 26th Army in Yunnan and leader of the long-drawn-out defense of Changteh against the Japanese in 1943, he was a soldier worth wooing to any cause. He had prospered outside Red China with his investments in Hong Kong real estate, in Macao fisheries and Chinese trading firms...
...Hong Kong these days, markets and bazaars are flooded with produce from Red China-white rice and spiced beef, ham from Yunnan, berries from Ningpo, litchi from Canton and dried melons from faraway Sinkiang. It might seem a land of plenty that can afford to export so many delicacies. But in Hong Kong one day last week, reported TIME Correspondent Val Chu, a four-year-old girl refugee from Red China sat down with her relatives for a meal of pork and rice. She picked up a piece of pork, licked it, put it down and began shoveling mouthfuls...
...terms of the truce also called for each side to turn over public services in operating condition. Accordingly, French Premier Mendés-France sent a personal emissary to Hanoi to persuade the four big French-run public utility companies-the power plant, water company, Yunnan railway, and Hanoi's municipal streetcar system-to stay on under the Communists...
...Minus-One. Mendès had begun that day, the next to last before his deadline, faced with new demands 1) from China's Chou En-lai for a slice of northern Laos to be attached to China's province of Yunnan, and 2) from Pham Van Dong for more than a third of Laos to be handed over to the "free" Pathet Laos movement. Heavy black circles under his eyes, Mendès had picked up his faithful backer Anthony Eden, rushed off to see Chou Enlai...