OUTER MONGOLIA: Help from Big Brother

Outer Mongolia, a lonely, landlocked area twice the size of Texas, is a place that the rest of the world refuses to regard as a nation and Soviet Russia refuses to treat as an equal. But last week the 1,000,000 Outer Mongolians found themselves promised unexpected favors by their master. The Russians announced their surrender to the Mongolians of all Soviet interests in Mongolian oil and metals, of two Soviet airports and of $25 million worth of other unidentified Soviet property in Mongolia. In addition. Moscow agreed to send 2,500 tractors, 550 harvesters, 200 power stations, 3,000 trucks and...

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