Word: mongolian
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...other Politburo members that Mao must be crushed now, before China becomes a nuclear superpower. Fast-moving, heavily equipped Russian armored columns stab across the Amur and Ussuri rivers into Manchuria, brushing aside China's infantry. A Soviet armored division knifes into Manchuria from the west, across the Mongolian border. Fleets of Ilyushin bombers pound Chinese airfields, troop concentrations and industrial centers across the entire northeast. China's outnumbered jets are swept from the skies, and within a week the major Manchurian cities of Shenyang and Harbin have fallen to the Soviet pincers. Linking up, the Russian columns...
...year its colors were uncommonly bright. The Mexicans were dazzling in white. There were green-gowned Nigerians and Australian girls in yellow dresses; the Americans wore red blazers and the Russians chose blue. The Japanese were decked out in uniforms of cerise and white, and there was a magnificent Mongolian flag-bearer in red loincloth, salmon cape, fur hat and leather knee boots...
...Mongolian Message. Washington's reaction to the words from Hanoi and Pnompenh was serious and empirical. Secretary of State Dean Rusk, asked if Hanoi's change in tense represented a bid to talk, replied: "I don't know yet. But I wouldn't want to characterize this statement today as either a peace feeler or as purely a propaganda move. Let's find out what this statement means as well as what it says...
...Johnson Administration at first was not even certain that there was any statement to study. The initial report came from the Agence France-Presse correspondent in Hanoi. He quoted North Viet Nam Foreign Minister Nguyen Duy Trinh as saying to a visiting delegation of Mongolian Communists: "If the American Government really wants talks, it must first unconditionally cease bombing and all other acts of war against the Democratic Republic of Viet...
...rumors." In Inner Mongolia, counter-revolutionary bands have sprung up, murdering, sabotaging government installations and passing out anti-Mao leaflets. Mao Tse-tung's men charge that in far-off Sinkiang, where Army Strongman Wang En-mao has never paid much heed to Peking, "Soviet, Indian and Mongolian agents have united with local traitors and nationalist elements" to stir dissent and create disturbances...