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DIED. Oqirhuyakt, 84, former Mongolian warlord and last lineal descendant of Genghis Khan, the 13th century Mongol military genius whose horse-borne hordes conquered China and menaced all of Central Asia; of cancer; in Huhehot, Inner Mongolia. Because of his hereditary status, his large following and his cooperation with the new regime in Peking after 1949, Oqirhuyakt (the single-name form is common for Mongolians) became a regional official. The ashes of Genghis' 32nd-generation descendant will rest in the tomb of his illustrious ancestors on the Ordos Plateau...
What remains uncertain is what Peking really wants for the estimated $1.5 billion a year (around 2% of China's gross national product) that it spends on missiles and warheads. Pads for testing medium-and intermediate-range missiles have been built at Huhehot, the capital city of Inner Mongolia, and at a new site in the mountains of Manchuria's Kirin Province, from which IRBMs can be fired over a 2,000-mile range to barren Sinkiang Province. But there are no signs that China is even ready to test a full-blown intercontinental ballistic missile, which would...
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