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When protesters began a hunger strike last week, Communist leaders gave in to nearly all of the opposition's demands. In an emergency session, the party's Central Committee replaced Batmonh, 63, as Politburo chief, with Gombojavyn Ochirbat, 61, a former head of the Mongolian trade union federation who was ousted in 1982, presumably having angered the leadership. Joining him in the new Politburo are four other reform-minded officials, all in their...
...March 24 issue of the Crimson, I read an article about the Russian Research Center's use of Soviet collaborators during World War II in the post-war period. A distinguished scholar of Mongolian was prominently mentioned and I thought I should add my personal experiences to that story...
...Nazis pinpoint Jewish centers in the parts of the USSR occupied by the Germans is odd since he did not even know where the "Jewish centers" were in his native city of Leningrad. He was not considered as an informant on Soviet affairs by various specialist on Mongolia and Mongolian. I have not read the book reported in the Crimson but it sounds somewhat sensational. Richard N. Frye Aga Khan Professor of Iranian
...article, Wiener writes that the primary focus of Parsons' actions in Germany was Nicholas Poppe, an expert on Mongolian languages. Poppe worked with the Nazis during the war and was banned from the United States, according to the article...
...Some of us grew up reading comic books, sports stories, science fiction or other literature that might not please Hirsch's dignified tastes. We read about what we liked, and that's how we learned to read. If children test poorly on a reading comprehension passage about, say, the Mongolian tree iguana, and well on one about a space taxi, it's because they are more interested in space than in life sciences, not necessarily because have read extensively on the subject. Literacy provides the freedom to discover and decide our own interests, which Hirsch constrains by telling us what...