Word: taklamakan
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...flying U-2s and satellite cameras record roads, railways, steel mills, oil wells, nuclear plants, missile ranges and troop movements. U.S. Government analysts early spotted China's gaseous diffusion plant at Lanchow, the plutonium reactor at Paotow, and the atom-bomb test site at Lop Nor in the Taklamakan wastes of Sinkiang. They have predicted well in advance the timing of all three Chinese atomic explosions...
...trip to Kashgar and back along the edge of the Taklamakan Desert was one of the great experiences of our lives. We followed a route as old as history itself: Marco Polo passed over it, Tamerlane sacked it, the Chinese built watchtowers to guard it. The ruins are still there, and even the caravans are the same. We photographed everything- sipped tea and ate melons with all the little officials who came out to meet us -got our story by putting together a hundred fragments that told us what their lives had been...
...Forest Hill, she gave regal audience to newshawks: "I intend to take my responsibilities as Queen seriously. My two sons are excited at the idea that they are now Princes." But before the royal family could get to the coronation city of Khotan on the southern rim of the Taklamakan Desert, the troops of General Shen Shih-tsai, young Chinese provincial governor, swooped down on King Khalid with planes furnished by Soviet Russia. Last week a brief dispatch from the sand bowl disposed of the pickle maker's ambitious son: "Provincial troops overthrew the insurgent Moslem forces...