Word: lopping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Radio Moscow beams an ultimatum: Either Mao and his clique step down, or Peking will be seized. To reinforce the warning, Soviet heavy bombers destroy China's nuclear-testing-and-development centers at Lop Nor and Lanchow. Stubbornly, Mao decides to fight on. Peking falls, and to the west, Soviet divisions surge into Sinkiang, to be received without conspicuous resentment by the tribal peoples of the area, long oppressed by the Chinese. The Russians move no farther south. Aware of Chinese skills at guerrilla warfare, Moscow orders that a new frontier be set up roughly along the 38th parallel...
South of the Tien Shan on the Chinese side lies the Taklamakan Desert and the lake of Lop Nor, home of the Chinese nuclear tests. Beginning about 1960, the Peking government set out to transform the desert into a fertile area. Hundreds of thousands of soldiers, party cadres, middle-school graduates and intellectuals thought to be in need of "reeducation" have been sent to Sinkiang to work for the cause, and their efforts have had some results. But for the most part, Sinkiang remains a wasteland, even less developed than the Soviet lands to the north...
Harvard's hockey team rebounded from its lop-sided 9-2 loss to Denver Thursday to upset WHCA champions Michigan Tech, 6-5, in a marathon double overtime contest for third place in the NCAA tournament Saturday at the Air Force Academy Rink at Colorado Springs...
...Sinkiang. The London Sunday Express reported that Peking has ordered 5 million more troops to reinforce border divisions. There are reports that the Russians have built a complex of sites for medium-range missiles near the border, thus threatening Manchuria and the nuclear-testing grounds in Sinkiang's Lop...
...prospect is that despite such amputations, Congress will eventually reduce the President's original $186.1 billion budget request by only about $3 billion. Then the Administration will presumably attempt to lop off more. But the war, along with interest on the national debt and other exigencies of the nation's housekeeping, will make further substantial reductions almost prohibitively difficult...