Word: sinkiang
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...laid siege to the rebels' main stone fortress, constructed cannons on the spot and in March forced it to surrender. Ch'ien-lung's armies, which earlier defeated the Mongolians and Tibetans, have by now expanded his empire by some 600,000 square miles, notably in Sinkiang. He thus rules more land than any past Emperor...
...fully match Johnson's masterwork, the sleek SR-71 Blackbird, a plane that can fly so high (100,000 ft.) and so fast (2,000 m.p.h. plus) that it was able to cruise near Peking's first H-bomb explosion over the Lob Nor desert of northeastern Sinkiang province in 1967. It took photographs and gathered data without being damaged by the blast. After such daring forays, SR-71 pilots would decorate their fuselages with the silhouette of a cobra-like poisonous snake called the habu, which inhabits a Pacific island where SR-71s are based. When TIME...
Conspicuously present at the celebration were some of China's new national heroes. Among them: a militiaman from Sinkiang who helped capture a Soviet helicopter that strayed-or intruded-across the Chinese border last March. China's insouciant mood in fact contrasted markedly with the tone of Soviet pronouncements; just before Peking's silver anniversary, the Moscow press had let fly the ultimate in ideological insults, for the first time terming Peking's policy "anti-Communist." The Chinese scarcely seemed to pay attention. Their purpose was to establish an every thing-as-normal mood...
...beginning to look like another long, hot summer in the troubled relations between China and Russia. For the past few months the two nations have been engaged in a vituperative duel over the Chinese capture of a Soviet helicopter that strayed across the border into Sinkiang last March. The Soviets claim that the helicopter, with its three-man crew, was on a medical rescue mission when it lost its bearings over the Altai Mountains. The Chinese insist that the chopper "carried arms and reconnaissance equipment" and was involved in "espionage activities." Since their capture, the luckless Soviet crewmen have been...
...modernization drive. But territory itself has always been important to Chinese self-respect and world prestige. From an economic or historical perspective, then, it is not surprising that the victors of the Chinese revolution have been so intent on returning lost territories to their homeland. And if nothing else, Sinkiang province has served China well as a suitably unpopulated area for nuclear-bomb testing...