Word: communists
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...Soviet warnings of armed retaliation against China produced a new convulsion in a world already alarmed by the turmoil in the Middle East and Africa (see WORLD). While the fighting did not immediately involve U.S. interests-indeed the U.S. could take some ironic satisfaction from this conflict among the Communist powers, and in Viet Nam of all places-the prospect of a wider war was deeply disturbing. If the Soviets became involved, would the fighting spread beyond Viet Nam? And was there any way for the U.S. to contain it? "We will not get involved in a conflict between Asian...
...true interests lie. In Iran, our interest is to see its people independent, able to develop according to their own design, free from outside interference. In Southeast Asia, our interest is to promote peace and the withdrawal of outside forces, and not to become embroiled in conflict among Asian Communist nations. And, in general, our interest is to promote the health and the development of individual societies, not to a pattern cut exactly like ours in the U.S., but tailored rather to the hopes and the needs of the peoples involved...
Last week Dong Dang and Lang Son had been turned into tormented battlegrounds again. In an escalating war between angry Communist neighbors and cultures that have been antagonistic for 2,000 years, three divisions of invading Chinese troops descended on Dong Dang and on the Vietnamese coastal plain to the east in giant pincers aimed at Lang Son. Battalions of the Vietnamese regular army hauling heavy weapons rushed north to meet them head-on and force a confrontation that could be the first major battle of the week-long war. In preparation, China threw three fresh divisions against forward Vietnamese...
...Hanoi with an estimated $14 billion in aid over the past two decades?abruptly cut off 21 current assistance projects. In June, as the last Chinese aid technicians went home, Hanoi yielded to longstanding Soviet blandishments and formally jumped into Moscow's economic orbit as a member of the Communist trade alliance, COMECON...
...November Moscow and Hanoi formalized their alliance in a 25-year Soviet-Vietnamese treaty of friendship, which was signed with much ceremony in Moscow by Leonid Brezhnev, Premier Aleksei Kosygin and the Vietnamese Communist Party head, Le Duan, as well as Premier Pham Van Dong. Inside the usual bouquet of trade and cultural agreements there was no mistaking the glaring military nutshell: an ambiguous degree of mutual defense, to the extent of "consultations and appropriate effective measures to ensure the peace and security of their countries." For Peking the treaty was a stinging political rebuke...