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...Yenisel River originates in the Tannu Ola Mountains of western Mongolia and runs approximately 2800 miles until reaching its point of outflow into the Arctic Ocean...
Marxism-Leninism, frequently known as Communism, is the governing force in the Soviet Union and its East bloc satellites, as well as in China, Mongolia, North Korea, Viet Nam, Laos, Cambodia, Cuba, Albania and Yugoslavia. The most repressive variant of socialism, Marxism-Leninism is a kind of secular religion, preaching the necessity of class warfare, the dictatorship of the proletariat and the concentration of near total power in a tightly structured party that is supposedly the vanguard of the revolutionary masses. Communism is dogmatic in its determination to abolish private property and nationalize the means of production as the first...
...writing about the "new" China with more skepticism than the Toronto Globe and Mail's Ross H. (for Howard) Munro. Since his arrival 2½ years ago in the Chinese capital, where he is the only resident North American journalist, Munro, 36, has reported on a Potemkin village in Inner Mongolia that he suspected was set up to mislead visiting foreigners, pieced together detailed accounts of Peking's struggle with trade deficits, and chronicled the attempts of Mao's successors to revise the Chairman's teachings. For his enterprise, Munro was pointedly dropped from a government press trip to Tibet this...
Wang has also been credited with bringing down Defense Minister Lin Piao in 1971. According to the official Chinese version, Lin had been caught plotting against Mao and was accidentally killed in a plane crash over Mongolia, probably while fleeing to the Soviet Union; in fact, Western specialists have suspected the "crash" was the result of sabotage - Wang's work, in short...
ORIENTAL OPULENCE. Saint Laurent's new operatic visions have moved eastward from Russia to the plains of Mongolia and the war councils of 13th century China. Mandarins and coolies alike are swathed in satin and silk, tasseled and tufted, brocaded and beaded. A collector of Oriental art, Saint Laurent has used for his clothes the colors of his objets d'art-jade green, Chinese bronze, and the rich reds and shiny blacks of lacquer. Soft opiate grays that add a smoky mystery to the costumes complement a perfume that he will introduce next year-named, appropriately, Opium...