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Nevertheless, something was obviously amiss. Five weeks ago, just after a Chinese jet with nine aboard crashed mysteriously deep in Mongolia, the entire Chinese air force was abruptly grounded; with rare exceptions, it still is. The three top military chiefs, including Army Boss Huang Yung-sheng, one of the leading...
China watchers do not even pretend to make sense of all the disappearances, reappearances and grounded planes. Chinese officials are advising Western diplomats: "Rather than speculate, wait. Before long, you will understand." The solution of the puzzle may not appear, however, until the long-postponed National People's Congress...
Notable Absence. The mystery began to develop three weeks ago with the sudden and almost simultaneous disappearance from public view of all the important military chiefs, most of the 21-member Politburo and the bulk of the Chinese air force, which was grounded on Sept. 13 and has yet to...
The most sensational possibility to surface last week was that a high-level defector might have a role in the political turmoil. The Soviet news agency Tass picked up a Mongolian dispatch concerning the crash "for unknown reasons" of a Chinese air force jet in northeast Mongolia only 60 miles...
Pierre Vallieres: The Quebecois are capable not only of disciplining themselves for the independence struggle but are also clear that socialism is a necessary aspect of that struggle. The danger of Stalinism exists, that is, it is possible that a group could get into power on the basis of independence...