Word: ulan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After a fortnight in communion with nature in the Outer Mongolian wilderness, Supreme Court Associate Justice William O. Douglas, 62, deplaned in Moscow with a knapsack full of obiter dicta. Noting that the Ulan Bator intelligentsia is "starved for contact with the West" and that "the Russians are doing a wonderful public relations job for themselves" there, the outspoken jurist urged a U.S. counter-push, starting with instant diplomatic recognition...
...Memories. Kennedy and Chen also disagreed on policy toward Outer Mongolia. Some U.S. policymakers favor recognition of the puppet state, on the ground that an embassy in remote Ulan Bator would prove a valuable listening post for picking up intelligence of the Communist world. They also favor a deal to admit Outer Mongolia to the U.N. in exchange for a Soviet agreement to admit Mauritania, on Morocco's southern border. This. they argue, would win gratitude for the U.S. among the new African nations. Chen warned the President that Nationalist China might veto the admission of Outer Mongolia...
Last week Moscow sent a delegation to Ulan Bator to the 14th Outer Mongolian Communist Party Congress while virtually ignoring the 40th anniversary of the Chinese party in Peking. Pravda, which uses layout and column inch with Politburo precision, reported the Ulan Bator festivities in a big Page One spread, relegated the Peking fete to a small item on page 6. Polish Party Leader Wladyslaw Gomulka and Premier Josef Cyrankiewicz set off to pay an official visit to Ulan Bator, but have been told by Khrushchev to stop there, not to go on to neighboring China. Russia publicly embarrassed...
...Chinese Premier Chou En-lai himself came to Ulan Bator and signed a treaty providing for $50 million in long-term loans to build a cotton mill, a sheet-glass factory, a 10,000-ton steel mill, an irrigation system, a circus, and a project for 240,000 square meters of apartment housing for Ulan Bator...
...buttercups and tiny scarlet lilies of some of the world's finest pasture land, where for centuries the sturdy Mongolian ponies had been the fastest means of transportation. A quarter of the country's million-odd inhabitants have deserted their hide-covered tents for apartments in modern Ulan Bator (pop. 180,000) and four other 10,000-plus cities. Some 100,000 Mongolian children and adults are in school. Though its 21 million head of horses, camels, goats, yaks and sheep (now nearly 80% collectively owned ) remain the center of its economy. Mongolia is beginning to produce...