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A Marine Corps officer in both the Korean and Vietnam wars, and a former
new Red Star-hatted train attendants.
Crossing the 18-foot-high barbwired China border, the change from the western to the eastern world is instantaneous; the structured beat of western rock music surrenders to the sing song of China's native music. English langauge newspapers are suddenly gone from the attendants' carts, and the familiar Roman language world is displaced out the window by the signage of Mandarin Chinese characters.
From here on we will depend for direction on instinct and on a voung Chinese government “guide" assigned to us for the duration. Political talk with him and other Chinese on this trip comes uneasily for me. having last met these people at the other end of
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