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...curious. Is the odd-looking vessel so strategically placed at the feet of Premier Chou En-lai during audiences with Western visitors [Aug. 23] a spittoon, a good, old-fashioned chamber pot, an incense burner or a Chicom fire extinguisher used for dampening Western overtures? (MRS.) ANDREA R. WALCOTT Kingston, Jamaica...
...Communist troops moved through Thanh My hurling various sorts of explosives-grenades, satchel charges and homemade devices called "Chicom grenades," which are fashioned from Coca-Cola cans filled with plastique or TNT, rocks and nails. Explosives dumped into one large bunker killed 24 persons. "When the V.C. came, they shot every house," says Hoan Than Tick, 56, a resident who escaped. "When people ran, they shot them too. Then they threw grenades into the bunkers...
...China crisis makes me curious to see what the Chiang Kai-shek haters will come up with this time after all those variations on "I have seen the future, and it works," after each visit to the Communists. Also to be heard from are the ChiCom dreaders, with their dire forebodings about the mighty Red Chinese nation, a dedicated monolith poised to crush all Asia at any provocation...
...position unmistakably clear. U.S. Navy destroyers were escorting Nationalist supply ships to the three-mile limit off Quemoy, but the Nationalists were being clobbered on the beaches (see FOREIGN NEWS) by Communist artillery. It was not impossible that a U.S. ship would be hit, since one obvious Chicom aim was to provoke the U.S. into aggressive-looking acts. (The Reds even sent out false directional signals in hopes of luring American planes over the mainland, where, shot down, they would look like attackers.) Russian Premier Nikita Khrushchev, rattling the Moscow end of the Communist axis, threatened in another propaganda letter...
Academic Cease-Fire. Ike reminded the reporters that Secretary of State Dulles had said "We would not discuss the affairs of the Chinese Nationalists behind their backs, but that if-as a test of good intent -if the Chicom† wanted to talk merely about ceasefire, we would be glad to meet with them and talk with them, but there would be no conferring about the affairs of the Chinese Nationalists." Carefully selecting his words, the President explained why, in his view, a cease-fire discussion need not involve the Nationalists. "So far as I know, the Chinese Nationalists...
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