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...help improve strained Japanese relations with the U.S., which ranks among its biggest markets. "Every effort must be made to preserve and foster our ties," said Mitsubishi Corp. President Chujiro Fujino, as he handed the gift check to Harvard President Derek Bok. Then they toasted the event with Kirin, a Japanese beer exported, naturally, by Mitsubishi...
...year (around 2% of China's gross national product) that it spends on missiles and warheads. Pads for testing medium-and intermediate-range missiles have been built at Huhehot, the capital city of Inner Mongolia, and at a new site in the mountains of Manchuria's Kirin Province, from which IRBMs can be fired over a 2,000-mile range to barren Sinkiang Province. But there are no signs that China is even ready to test a full-blown intercontinental ballistic missile, which would have to be lofted over a 6,000-mile range into the Indian Ocean...
...birch forests. The soil is fertile: travelers describe the Amur River basin, in which Khabarovsk lies, as the "breadbasket of the Soviet Far East." For hundreds of miles, from Vladivostok on north, industry has been built up as well. Across the border, in the Chinese provinces of Heilungkiang and Kirin, industry is also thriving: the great manufacturing cities of Harbin (steel) and Changchun (trucks) play a vital role in the Chinese economy...
...judge by the official government press, all but nine of the country's 26 provinces and regions are beset by some degree of unrest. Peking has officially described the province of Kirin in Manchuria as "very disturbed" and warned the citizens of far northern Heilungkiang, which is rich in both industry and agriculture, that "bad elements are trying to sabotage the people's dictatorship and spread lies and rumors." In Inner Mongolia, counter-revolutionary bands have sprung up, murdering, sabotaging government installations and passing out anti-Mao leaflets. Mao Tse-tung's men charge that...
...sheepishly begun to retreat from its propaganda claims when providentially the government found a way to shift much of the blame: nature this spring took a cruel hand in China, as it so often has before. While flooding rains fell over huge chunks of Central China, the provinces of Kirin and Hopei were parched by drought. In Szechwan, a force of 40 million Chinese was working desperately to keep a wheat crop, badly weakened by unseasonably warm weather in the spring, from toppling over. In Honan, 5,000,000 farmers were battling swarms of insects, and six other provinces were...