Word: orientals
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cannot tolerate the Cubans to go swashbuckling unchecked in Africa, the Middle East and other areas, nor can we tolerate the Cubans of the Orient to go swashbuckling in Laos, Kampuchea or even in the Chinese border areas. Now some people in the world are afraid of offending them, even if they do something terrible. These people wouldn't dare take action against them." So said China's Vice Premier Teng Hsiao-p'ing last week, puffing on a Panda cigarette as he aimed an unmistakable rebuke at what Peking considers the jelly-bellied Western response...
...visit this month, railing against the "hegemonistic" ambitions of the Soviet "polar bear" and against Vietnamese "aggression" in Southeast Asia. Hanoi "has to be taught a necessary lesson," he warned. In Tokyo on his way home, Teng again pointedly talked of "punitive action" against "those Cubans of the Orient...
Some critics tried to link Taiwan with Israel, claiming that the China decision showed the Carter Administration to be an unreliable ally. But the situations in the Middle East and the Orient differ enormously, and so do U.S. interests in both parts of the world. Moreover, the U.S. stuck with Taiwan-supplying money and arms and maintaining the fiction that Taiwan was China-for nearly 30 years, arguably longer than any other world power in such a situation would have been willing...
DIVORCED. Albert Finney, 42, English stage and film actor (among his movies: Tom Jones, Murder on the Orient Express); and Anouk Aimée, 46, French actress (A Man and a Woman); after eight years of marriage; in London...
...Christie original. As detective stories go, this one is pretty good, what with the beauty of Egypt thrown in above and beyond the call of plot twists and guessing games. If you like this sort of thing, go. Or if you prefer trains, see Murder on the Orient Express again...