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...Whiting, now a prominent State Department specialist, has concluded that at the minimum, China entered the Korean War in order "to preserve an entity identifiable as the Democratic People's Republic of Korea." There is every reason to believe that if American armies again threaten to destroy a buffer state allied with China--in this case, North Vietnam--Peking will not hesitate to intervene, even at the risk of provoking American bombing of the Chinese mainland...
...Geneva accords of 1954 that separated North and South Viet Nam stipulated the creation of a buffer zone between the two countries. No troops were to enter this so-called Demilitarized Zone, which averages three miles in width on either side of the Ben Hai River frontier. Hanoi has long regarded the DMZ as a convenient, protected freeway for infiltrating its soldiers into the South. Flagrant though that violation was, in recent months Hanoi has done far more: it has turned the DMZ into a giant staging area and mortar and artillery base for its buildup against the U.S. Marines...
...estimated two companies of North Vietnamese to cope with but also the civilians living in the DMZ. Part of Hickory's mission is to remove the estimated 11,000 villagers living in the DMZ and resettle them farther south, thus creating a free bombing zone in the buffer strip; the South Vietnamese force that moved up Route 1 had part of the same mission. The Marine force that helicoptered in north of Con Thien faced little opposition, but it quickly uncovered proof of Hanoi's plans for a major offensive out of the DMZ: a vast depot...
...missile soared up, its firetail swishing as it chased a Marine A-4 Skyhawk maneuvering violently to escape. A sudden fireball erupted as the SAM hit its target. The use of SAMs along the DMZ could curtail the now frequent use of B-52 bombers along the much-buffeted buffer zone. The threat of SAMs has kept the less maneuverable eight-engine bombers from hitting North Viet Nam, and could keep them out of the DMZ if Hanoi moves in substantial numbers of SAMs...
Aloof on Olympus. If regents are to perform their buffer role effectively, they clearly need to know student and faculty leaders. Not all of them do. "Nobody really has any contact with the board of governors-it's like speaking to the gods on Olympus," complains Bart Mindszenthy, a campus newspaper editor at Wayne State University. Yet California regents are trying hard: they meet monthly with student leaders, sometimes hike with them in the High Sierras. Governors of Central Michigan University stay in student dorms when they meet...