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Sister Ruth skips quickly over the political blush that came into her cheekbones and Mike's in 1946, when the Communist Party publicly booted them out for "left deviationism." Despite their poignant cries of distress, the party kept the door locked, Author McKenney and her husband in outer darkness. Says she now: "A dismal political row . . . The whole thing was a mistake...
Dilowa Gegen, whose last name means enlightened one, was one of 13 high-ranking lamas in Outer Mongolia before 1980. The Russians entered, and he left, going to China and then coming to the United States to become Consultant on Mongol Studies at Johns Hopkins...
...model shown was designed to work best at Mach 3 (about 2,000 m.p.h.). The air "ramming" in at the open front is slowed down and compressed in the ring-shaped space between the outer shell and the pointed inner section. Some of the compressed air is diverted by a scoop and used to run a turbine and drive the fuel pump. The rest is mixed with fuel and fired by a small flame that burns in the shelter of the conical igniter. The hot gases roar out through a nozzle lined with heat-resistant ceramic. Their reactions propel...
...Chinese would now find themselves deceived. Russia, using Communism-"the most subtle instrument of Soviet foreign policy . . . ever devised"-is the new imperialist in Asia. Already Soviet Russia was proving the point in China by absorbing the northern "provinces" of Outer Mongolia, Manchuria, Inner Mongolia and Sinkiang. "I should like to suggest," said Acheson, "that this fact ... is the single most significant, most important fact in the relation of any foreign power with Asia...
...village is in wretched straits, practically isolated from the outer world save for Red Cross trucks bringing in emergency food. It hopes and prays that large numbers of pilgrims might visit it between Christmas and Easter. For the faithful, it would still be a troubled journey to a troubled shrine...