Word: yunnan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...also having difficulty in pulling the nation as a whole back from the precipice of the civil war nearly brought on by the revolution. The central part of China is now fairly well pacified, but feuds rippling out from the revolution are still roiling such remoter provinces as Tibet, Yunnan and Fukien. Despite the army's efforts to control the recent harvest, the peasants are hoarding a larger-than-usual share of the grain crop. Thus, despite a better harvest than last year, Peking's take has been poorer...
...provinces, and only two (Peking and Shanghai) of its major cities. Now, since his supporters have begun fighting among themselves, he is unlikely to make much more progress. Peking wall posters last week told of a violent battle between rival Maoist groups in Kunming, the capital of Yunnan province, which borders on North Viet Nam. According to the big character signs, 266 Maoists were killed and 1,000 wounded. Stability in Yunnan is vital to Mao because through it pass the railroad lines that carry supplies to Hanoi...
Hardly anyone expected the Chinese bourgeoisie to rise again. But there was no doubt that the purge of "counterrevolutionary" Communists that swept Peking's Mayor Peng Chen from office (TIME, June 10) was spreading rapidly into the provinces. In southern Yunnan province and in neighboring Kweichow, editors of provincial party papers were under fire for spreading "revisionist poison." In Szechwan, a high-ranking official in the party's regional directorate was accused of having shamelessly attacked party cadres. "He has not yet made a confession," snarled the local radio, "but he will not be allowed to sneak...
...corroborated by the Chinese claim of a border dogfight in which one Red Chinese jet was shot down. Peking charged that the plane was engaged in a routine training flight inside Red China when five American "pirates" jumped it with air-to-air missiles and sent it crashing into Yunnan province. U.S. jets were indeed operating in the border area at the time, and claimed a kill themselves-but well over North Vietnamese territory...
...Hanoi (see map). Flights of Air Force Thunderchiefs and Phantoms shattered three rail bridges on the already-mangled Hanoi-Lao Kay line, chewed up 300 yards of track and a railway yard. The Lao Kay-Lang Son line is the only rail link between Red China's Yunnan province and the rest of China, and with the U.S. hitting it twice a week since Sept. 4, all traffic to Yunnan is now moving by highway or air. So far, Peking has not retaliated. "We figured it was a pretty good calculated risk," says a military spokesman...