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...General Assembly soon reverted to its favorite public activity, speechmaking. The Chinese, all neatly uniformed in Mao tunics, sat in stoic silence as delegate after delegate droned on about a Soviet proposal for an all-nation summit conference on disarmament. The Yugoslav delegate offered his views in English, the Mongolian spoke in Russian, and in the galleries the rows of plastic earphones hummed simultaneously in French and Spanish, like disembodied voices in some Fellini extravaganza...
...reports said that when the plot was exposed, Lin Piao and some of the higher military conspirators tried to escape to the Soviet Union in an air force plane which crashed in the Mongolian Republic...
...thousand years ago the Vietnamese drove out a better-equipped and trained invading Chinese army. The cost was high. But for three hundred years the Vietnamese enjoyed relatively secure boundaries. Three hundred years later the Vietnamese were forced to take up arms against an invading Mongolian army led by Kubla Khan. Again, the cost was high. But a united front of landowners, merchants, artisans, and peasants did not hesitate to shed blood--their own and that of the invading troops--in an effort to preserve Vietnam's territorial independence...
...most sensational possibility to surface last week was that a high-level defector might have a role in the political turmoil. The Soviet news agency Tass picked up a Mongolian dispatch concerning the crash "for unknown reasons" of a Chinese air force jet in northeast Mongolia only 60 miles from the Soviet border. The crash took place on the night of Sept. 12-the day before the air force was so suddenly grounded. Nine charred bodies, several weapons and unspecified "documents" were found in the wreckage...
...provide sites for Chinese range-monitoring stations and a base for a Chinese missile-recovery ship. But where are the ICBMs? The delay may be rooted in difficulties with ICBM technology, or in building ICBM launch pads at Shuangchengtzu, the high (4,000 ft.), sandy plain near the Mongolian border that remains China's main missile-test complex. Then again, the Chinese may have decided simply to stick with their relatively cheap MRBMs, which can hit cities like Vladivostok and Irkutsk, and thus would be sufficient to make the Russians think twice about sending troops across the Ussuri...