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...Chiang finds point to a mysterious cradle of civilization
...July 1966, Stephen Young was walking through the village of Ban Chiang in northeastern Thailand when he tripped across history. "I stumbled over the root of a kapok tree and ended up spread-eagle in the dirt, and under my face was the rim of a pot," recalls Young, who was then a 20-year-old Harvard student spending the summer researching a political-science thesis...
Archaeologists were intrigued by the potsherds, some of which have since been dated at 3500 B.C., and they soon discovered even more intriguing objects at Ban Chiang: bronze tools and jewelry, such as anklets and bracelets, fashioned between 2500 and 1500 B.C., and iron implements and ornaments made around 1000 to 500 B.C. Says University of Pennsylvania Archaeologist Joyce White: "Finding these metal objects was completely unexpected. It has caused scientists to rethink traditional theories about the development of civilization in Southeast Asia...
...paces a minute, in the goose step that is traditional for military displays in Communist countries. Artillery pieces boomed out a 28-gun salute, a symbolic reminder of the 28 years it took Mao Tse-tung and his Communist armies to wrest the mainland from the control of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalists...
TIME MAGAZINE HAS made it official. Under the screaming headline "Canada Changes Course" the smiling visage of our new conservative Prime Minister adorns the edition of September 17th. Brian Mulroney now takes his place along with Cheryl Tiegs, various corporate worthies and innumerable portraits of Chiang Kai Sheik as Time's galaxy of cover personalities...