Word: manchurian
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...Correct Communist. As master of "the Northeast District," spectacled Kao Kang, who is not yet 50, is one of the six vice chairmen of Mao's Peking government. Not Manchurian by birth (he comes from Shensi), he is undisputed No. 1 in Manchuria...
...leaders to collectivize farming and socialize industry. In the structure of its government and the conduct of its business, the Northeast has more autonomy than the other five districts making up Red China. It was Kao, rather than a delegation from Peking, who went to Moscow and negotiated the Manchurian-Soviet trade agreement of 1949. Until recently, the Northeast even had its own currency...
...Manchuria has the Russians-thousands of them scattered through cities and factories, as "technical advisers"; other thousands at the airfields and depots where Chinese are being trained to fly Russian jets and use Russian armaments; additional thousands working as everything from top executives to lowly trackmen on the vital Manchurian railways, which Soviet Russia operates jointly with the Chinese Communists...
...probably has a longer range, thus might be useful if the Communists decide to try something they haven't dared before: low-level attacks on the U.N.'s fighter-plane bases in South Korea. MIG-15s presumably could not go that far and back from their Manchurian sanctuary...
...marines were none too sure that they would get out of China themselves. But they packed the bones with their own gear, shipped everything on the Manchurian railway and planned to meet an American transport at the coastal town of Chinwangtao. A hospital corpsman was designated as escort for the bones, but the escort missed the train. A few days later marines, train, and transport were all in Japanese hands...