Word: sinkiang
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Aleksandr Shelepin back from North Viet Nam, and Moscow looking good after its mediating efforts in the Pakistani-Indian accord at Tashkent, the Soviets gloated over their new 20-year mutual assistance, friendship and cooperation treaty with Outer Mongolia, the pro-Soviet land on Red China's sensitive Sinkiang frontier. But this was not all. Now it was time for Moscow to greet still another Asian statesman-Etsusaburo Shiina, Japan's first foreign minister to come calling since the two countries renewed diplomatic relations...
...Delhi, the Indians charge that Pakistan has received a $67 million loan from Peking to rebuild its shattered armed forces, claim that a daily air shuttle from Sinkiang into Pakistan is carrying Red Chinese small arms to outfit three new Pakistani divisions. "There is an almost poisonous atmosphere between the two countries," said a top Shastri aide last week. "To expect any dramatic results [in Tashkent] seems to be rather impractical." Since the heart of the Indo-Pakistani dispute remains Kashmir, a problem which neither the U.N. nor the big powers have been able to arbitrate successfully for 18 years...
...CRIMSON received its annual shipment of fortune cookies from Sinkiang Province yesterday with a Happy Chanukah note attached. Sifting through the crumbs, the editors found these messages for the coming year...
Racial hatreds plague all Asian nations, which present a vast, graduated racial spectrum, from the blonde ethnic Russians of bleak Sinkiang through the anthracite Tamils of India and Ceylon, whose daughters were of such black velvety loveliness that in World War II lonely American servicemen were wont to sigh, "I'd walk a mile for a Tamil." Now a new G.I. generation is entranced by Saigon's graceful Cochinchinoises but is surprised to find Asian girls just as sensitive to racial nuances as the snobbiest New Orleans debutante...
...caught trying to slip out of California, bound for Red China. He was finally permitted to leave the U.S. in 1955, surfaced immediately in Peking. The status of his missile program is obscure, but it is known that a missile range has been laid out near the Sinkiang nuclear testing ground. Some observers believe that, despite shortages of vital nickel and chromium, Red China, which already has some Soviet-designed, surface-to-surface rockets, might have a nuclear-tipped, 200-mile missile in two to three years...