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...century. Key project of the first-phase plan, scheduled to be started next year: a mammoth, TVA-like dam and reservoir at Sanmen Gorge in Honan Province, where the turbulent Yellow is compressed between two steep cliffs. The plans are not much different from those conceived by Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalists in the old days, but these projects are considered more plausible because of the Communists' ruthless ability to mobilize whole armies of forced labor...
...inadequately mapped, has been in dispute ever since the British seized Upper Burma in 1885. On a variety of dubious grounds, including the fact that a 9th century Burmese kingdom once paid tribute to China's T'ang emperors, Chinese rulers from the Empress Dowager to Chiang Kai-shek claimed large chunks of northern Burma. The Chinese Reds, after their conquest of mainland China in 1949, redrew the map to show the disputed areas as part of China, and then waited for history to confirm their...
...favorite recreation of Communist China's children, and so useful too, is the game of hunting and killing the "four injurious pests." Kiangsi Radio reports that the children of Hsuangsi village called the pests "little Chiang Kai-sheks, thus creating considerable enthusiasm for eliminating them." In one recent two-week stretch alone, 710,000 children destroyed 2,832,000 sparrows, 869,525 rats...
...Formosa Nixon assured Chiang Kai-shek that the U.S. in its Geneva discussions is mapping no end-around play on Far East allies whose anti-Communist front has been molded at U.S. insistence. From there he flew on for stops in Pakistan and Turkey...
...recent months, Radio Peking has dropped most of the insults ("running dog," etc.) in front of Chiang Kai-shek's name, now treats him as if he were merely a stubborn old fellow. But Chou could not resist a passing reference to Formosa's "dying gasp." Answered Nationalist China's Foreign Minister George K. C. Yeh: "Pure nonsense...