Word: kingdoms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Everybody wants a bureau in the Middle Kingdom...
...China's Vice Premier Teng Hsiao-p'ing is demonstrating an adeptness in the care and feeding of American newsmen. As part of its celebration of the New Year's Day normalization of relations with Washington, the Peking regime invited 27 U.S. reporters to the Middle Kingdom for a two-week tour. A high point was meeting with Teng in the Great Hall of the People, the first such session for American newsmen with a leader of the People's Republic. Teng fielded questions with ease and even showed a touch for one-liners. When...
...finally, the week in which the once proud and orderly kingdom of Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi seemed almost beyond recall. The streets of Tehran rocked with pitched battles. More than 20 demonstrators lay dead, hundreds were wounded in battles with the Shah's soldiers. A crippling strike by oilfield workers shut off the Iranian petroleum spigot and plunged the economy into chaos. Banks, schools and stores were closed. Iran Air, the national airline, canceled all flights. Bus service halted. The nation was on its knees and, were nothing done, would soon be prostrate. His earlier attempts to establish...
...that market seemed hermetically closed. Now Western businessmen dream of selling just one handkerchief to each of the 1 billion Chinese; that would be enough to keep two or more big textile plants rolling for a year. Lyet got onto that new frontier rather early. He visited the Middle Kingdom more than a year ago, and soon thereafter Peking placed with Sperry one of its first significant orders for Western computers...
Ever since the first Yankee clipper set sail for Canton in 1784, China has held a compelling fascination for Americans. Traders and other early visitors to the Celestial Kingdom returned home with tales of teeming millions, exotic landscapes, seemingly outlandish manners and morals. Even today some Americans have a vision of China that is a fanciful montage of antithetical images: Confucius and Kung Fu; Wellesley-educated Madame Chiang Kai-shek and Mao's "sinister" widow Chiang Ch'ing; highborn ladies tiptoeing painfully on bound feet and unisex masses marching in bulky Mao jackets; delicately misty watercolors and propaganda...