Word: cantonment
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...open rebellion, with army units probably aiding the anti-Maoists, the region's navy and air force units loyal to Peking. In Kwangtung province, adjoining Hong Kong, a key transshipment point for Viet Nam, thousands of troops of the 47th Chinese Army surround the capital city of Canton, while elements of three other armies have moved in, presumably to wrest parts of the province back from anti-Mao rebels who control it. Szechwan, China's chief granary, is torn in two and in a state of virtual civil war: anti-Maoists hold Chungking, and Maoists the city...
...South China metropolis of Canton, a West German visitor was stopped cold by the sight of a corpse dangling from a traffic light. "What was his crime?" the traveler asked. His girl guide coolly explained that quite a few people are getting strung up in Canton because "they are political...
...Kong last week underscored a common theme in all the stories that drift out of China: a man's politics can put him in mortal danger anywhere in Mao Tse-tung's chaotic kingdom these days. But nowhere does the chaos seem quite so complete as in Canton. From day to day in the city of 2.5 million, it is difficult to tell just who is taking sides against whom-and why. Near anarchy has seen one faction of Red Guards pitted against another, and when they have not been otherwise occupied, Mao's bullyboys have turned...
Embarrassed as they are by the disorder in Canton, Maoist chiefs in Peking can do little about it. Last week, as usual, they were preoccupied with troubles in their own backyard. Items: > Demonstrators set a Russian car ablaze, then smashed into the Soviet embassy compound in a brazen display that moved the Kremlin to warn that a "hysterical anti-Soviet campaign" can only lead to a total break in diplomatic relations...
...Something is amiss in the great port city of Canton in the year A.D. 680, when Judge Dee arrives from Peking, ostensibly to look into foreign trade. What is missing-and what the Tang dynasty's master detective is looking for-is a fellow named Lew, the Imperial censor and pivotal power in the palace intrigues of the capital. Lew soon turns up dead, murdered by a delayed-action poison. The judge, of course, finds his culprit after dealing with a clutch of lively characters: the blind and beautiful Lan-lee, who collects crickets; Zumurrud, a half-caste belly...