Word: mongolia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...month, in an effort to convince the outside world that harmony had returned to Peking, Chinese officials began speaking openly for the first time of the events of last fall, confirming many details-Lin's attempts on Mao's life, his death in an air crash in Mongolia while trying to flee-that had filtered out of China long ago (TIME...
Peking has never publicly revealed the fate of former Defense Minister Lin Piao, Mao's heir apparent, who mysteriously disappeared last summer. Party officials were privately told that Lin was killed aboard an aircraft that crashed in Mongolia in September. Now a fictionalized version of his possible fate seems to have been spelled out in the revolutionary opera On the Docks, as performed by a troupe of Peking opera players in Shanghai...
...tries to sneak aboard a "foreign freighter" from "northern Europe" but is captured after a fight. This would change a major detail in the story of Lin's attempted defection. The opera says, in effect, that he was intercepted trying to board the aircraft that crashed in Mongolia, and was arrested after a bloody battle at Peking airport...
...Strings. Bangladesh, whose existence as an independent nation had previously been acknowledged only by India and Bhutan, was formally recognized last week by East Germany, Bulgaria, Poland, Mongolia and Burma. Pakistan angrily served notice that it would sever diplomatic relations with all nations that did so-a policy that will surely prove untenable as more countries follow suit. Britain, which has already promised aid to Bangladesh through the U.N., is expected to provide recognition in a few weeks. Despite the urgings of Senators Edward Kennedy and Hubert Humphrey that the U.S. recognize Bangladesh, the White House last week said that...
Stitch Job. The Scythians were not always preoccupied with war. Besides tippling, they apparently liked tripping. Ancient bronze vessels found in Scythian graves in the Altai mountains, near China and Mongolia, still contain remnants of the nomads' favorite hemp seeds. They were also highly successful herdsmen and farmers who traded their grain to indulge their taste for expensive jewelry, such as a magnificent gold pectoral ornament recovered from the new-found grave in the Ukraine. Crafted by Greek goldsmiths, who probably lived among the Scythians along the Black Sea, the chestpiece contains no fewer than 44 exquisitely carved animals...