Word: sino
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...rising expenses of the Viet Nam war. While the Russians obviously consider the U.S. their chief threat now, it may turn out that they are spending their money in the wrong place. The open, vulnerable end of that C faces Red China and, if Sino-Soviet relations continue to deteriorate as fast as they have been, Russian military men are bound to grow more nervous at the increasing power of China's nuclear arsenal...
While the West sees and appreciates this aspect of the falling-out, there is an other, lesser known and potentially more dangerous side: the rising of ten sion along the long Sino-Soviet border...
...China have been wrestling for years along the vast, sparsely settled 4,100-mile common frontier, from Kha barovsk in the east to Kirghiz in the west. The first recorded battle between Russian and Chinese troops took place in the Amur River valley in the 1680s, and since Sino-Soviet relations began to deteriorate in earnest in 1956, repeated incidents have occurred. Major trouble flared in 1960 and again in 1962, when Pravda reported that 5,000 border "in cidents" had occurred within twelve months. The Russians have since used troops to evict Chinese squatters from islands in the Amur...
Taboo Subjects. Hemmed in by the crime and the cheesecake, though, there is some good, investigative reporting. It was Yugoslavia's tabloids that first reported indications of the Sino-Soviet split; they were also first to pick up rumblings of Mao's cultural revolution. They are openly proud of the fact that they are officially "uncensored." But they still know what subjects remain taboo. Usually those subjects involve Tito. The papers do not discuss his private life or his personality. Nor do they discuss his opponents. No paper has spoken up for Milovan Djilas, Tito's former...
...country's elite. Now he is seldom seen outside his for bidding embassy. Actually, Peking's emissaries are so isolated that they have little to do. But there was a flurry of activity in the Moscow embassy last week. In the latest round in the Sino-Soviet controversy, the Kremlin announced that all remaining Red Chinese students -estimated at 65-must be out of the country by month...