Word: mongol
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ensuing conflict, the Viet Cong were able to cast themselves as defenders against a foreign invader, a time-honored role in Vietnam since the Mongol invasions in the middle ages...
TIMELINE (PBS, debuting Feb. 22, 8:30 p.m. on most stations). The Crusades, | the Mongol invasion of Europe and other hot stories of the Middle Ages are covered as TV news might do it today, sound bites and all, in this six-part series...
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...
...found finesse, the bikers' club did not abandon tradition, notably gang warfare. The 1977 murders that led to five convictions were one round of a raging dispute with a rival biker gang, the Mongols. Eaton and four other Angels ambushed two Mongol bikers on a San Diego freeway and machine-gunned them down. At the slain Mongols' funeral, a bouquet of red-and-white carnations (the Angel colors) and a dynamite-loaded Rambler were dropped off. The car exploded, injuring three mourners. The Mongols retaliated by gunning down Hell's Angel "Godfather" Raymond Piltz...
...reassure everybody that, as smart as a machine can get, it can never be as intelligent as its progenitor. In part, this effort is made in order to see that the wizened, noncomputer generation-which often regards the younger with the unbridled enthusiasm that the Chinese showed the Mongol hordes-feels that it has a safe and legitimate place in modernity. In part, the effort is made because the proposition is true: a computer cannot possess the full range of human intelligence. Yet, in terms of reconciling man and machine, this effort still misses the point. The cultural value...