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...September 1, 1977 A Dialogue With Eight Hundred Million People, an anthology of first-hand accounts of communist China written by Western reporters and scholars, was published in South Korea. Three months later, Mr. Lee Yong-hui, the translator and compiler of the anthology, was arrested by South Korean authorities. Lee was accused of failing to omit from his translation those passages "praising, encouraging and siding with 'foreign communist movements' as he would have been expected to do." Many of the accounts in the anthology had been published in South Korea without the objections of the government. Among the authors...
...quality of this year's team has been enough to make up for the adverse conditions. The undefeated team, undoubtedly the finest Harvard has ever gathered around the green-top, was led by returning stars Frank Chiang, Herbert Hui and Terry Maskin...
Last week the Japanese news agency Kyodo reported that another of Chiang Ch'ing's protégés, Yu Hui-yung, a composer who had been Minister of Culture, had succeeded where Chuang had failed. Yu reportedly committed suicide by gulping large amounts of poisonous detergent in a latrine in the Culture Ministry, where he had been forced to work as a janitor...
...arranged in the traditional way by his parents and was never consummated. His second wife was Yang K'ai-hui, daughter of one of his teachers and mother of their three sons. She was beheaded in 1930 by the Nationalists...
...Shih-hui, a Russian-educated solar physicist, said yesterday that while most older Chinese astronomers had to be educated abroad, Nanking and Peking Universities now have astronomy departments...