Word: mongolia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Peking leaders have overwhelming justification for fearing the Soviet Union, which has stationed one million men on the China border and a nuclear phalanx in nearby Mongolia. On the other hand, it may be that in their dealings with the United States and in their own internal debates, the Chinese will tend to exaggerate the extent of the Soviet threat and particularly the Soviet desire to continue to commit vast resources to the military buildup on the China border. Could it be that the Soviets have learned from the Vietnam war that the massive use of force against Asian countries...
...issue of Red Flag, the party's ideological journal. Sinologists see two reasons why party leaders have resurrected it at this time. One is to help convince surviving cadres of the Lin Piao faction that the former Defense Minister, who was reportedly killed in a plane crash in Mongolia in September 1971 after the discovery of his plot to assassinate Mao, had been acting against the Chairman's will even as early as 1966. The other reason for its publication is probably to dissociate Mao from the excesses of the Cultural Revolution...
...That was the position held by the late, disgraced Lin Piao, who, according to Chou, promoted the heresy of "the naming of only one successor." Chou confirmed publicly for the first time the story of the former Defense Minister's death last year in a plane crash in Mongolia (TIME, Nov. 22) and threw in some previously undisclosed details. As Chou told it, Lin had plotted to assassinate Mao and seize power in 1971, after he came under criticism in the party for trying to gain permanent army control over civilian institutions. Lin "didn't believe that...
...fellow conspirators took off in the Trident, but without the navigator and radio operator, who refused to disobey the order grounding all aircraft. Over Outer Mongolia, the plane ran low on fuel; and the pilot, unable to locate a runway, tried a forced landing. The plane caught fire; and the nine persons aboard were burned to death, though "it was still possible to identify them," said Chou. Another group of conspirators took off from the Peking suburbs at roughly the same time in a helicopter, the Premier revealed, but they were forced down by the air force. "Many secret documents...
Wildcatter. Chandler, 44, and Burke kept up their college friendship on hunting trips to such faraway places as Alaska, Africa and Mongolia. In 1955, Burke became godfather of the publisher's oldest daughter. Meanwhile, after starting out as a stockbroker in San Francisco, Burke made a chunk of money on a wildcat oil plunge and decided to go into the business full time. As Chandler revealed in a Journal interview, Burke asked him in 1965 to "introduce him to some people in Los Angeles" who might be interested in putting money into drilling funds, which offer special advantages...