Word: amur
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...much of 1969, the threat of a major conflict hovered over the 4,500-mile frontier between the Soviet Union and China. In at least two all-out battles this year on the Ussuri and Amur rivers, which separate Siberia and Manchuria, the Soviets called in armor and heavy artillery to pound the Chinese. Tensions rose to the point where the Soviets hinted that they might even launch a preventive strike against China's nuclear installations unless Peking agreed to negotiations aimed at settling the conflict. The war of nerves was threatening to get out of hand. Last week...
...latest fight took place in the vicinity of the Dzungarïan Gates, the ancient traders' pass that was the scene of two brief but bitter encounters in June; two other skirmishes occurred in March and July farther to the east, along the Amur and Ussuri rivers separating eastern Siberia and Manchuria. In a protest to Moscow, Peking's foreign ministry charged last week that Soviet border guards had advanced 1¼ miles into Sinkiang's Yumin County and opened fire on Chinese guards carrying out "normal patrol duty." The Chinese fell back, they said afterward...
...full-scale war ever erupts between the Soviet Union and China, a likely location for the opening battle is the Chinese region of Sinkiang. Occupying almost one-sixth of China's area, Sinkiang contains several volatile ingredients. Unlike other disputed border areas farther east, where the Amur and Ussuri rivers create a natural boundary, the 1,500-mile Sinkiang-Soviet frontier in many stretches is only vaguely demarcated. In addition, the area is the site of one of the most tempting targets in all of China: the nuclear testing grounds...
...first of many such ethical puzzles had been set. At 19, Kropotkin rejected a commission in a fashionable regiment for service in Siberia as aide to a provincial governor. As an already dedicated geographer, he set out to determine the course of the Amur River, a project that led him into a total revision of the geographical concept of Central Asia. He was impressed by the semi-Communistic "brotherly organization" of the Dukhobor sect. He proposed a sweeping agricultural reform, which was widely hailed. But then the whole enterprise bogged down in Czarist bureaucracies. "I lost in Siberia whatever faith...
Nuclear Reaction. The Chinese protest note warned the Soviets that they must cease their armed provocations or "you will certainly receive even more severe punishment from the Chinese people." Though the Chinese do not so far appear to be reinforcing their military defenses in the Amur-Ussuri sector, there are reports that two armored and three antiaircraft divisions have been moved into the Lop Nor nuclear-and rocket-testing site in Sinkiang Province as protection against a pre-emptive Soviet airborne attack. The Chinese concern is understandable since Lop Nor is only 500 miles southeast of the Dzungarian Gates...