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...Dong Dang. Lang Son. Blunt yet musical Vietnamese place names, redolent of history, blood and death. At the railhead city of Dong Dang, a 30-ft. yellow gate marks Japan's invasion of Indochina in 1940, which prompted President Franklin Roosevelt's perhaps apocryphal vow that "we will not go to war over any damn Ding Dong." At Lang Son, a crowded market town nine miles to the southeast, a nipple-crested mountain that colonial troops named the "baroness's breast" overlooks the ruins of a fort demolished even before the Viet Minh's war against the French...
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...
...tanks, spurted through the passes of the rugged, hilly terrain, bowled over Vietnamese outposts and fanned out in a broad, coordinated advance about six miles deep. By Hanoi's own admission, the Chinese after two days had occupied eleven towns and villages and had surrounded Dong Dang with tanks and self-propelled guns...
...size nor the complexity of the equipment deters the thieves. Alcorn Well Service Inc. of Victoria, Texas, reports $15,000 worth of gear stolen this year; latest loss: a $1,200 pair of 60-lb. elevators used to pull pipe. Says Alcorn Vice President Jimmy Hendrix: "Just about dang near every weekend somebody gets hit. They come in after dark, strip your rig, and we never recover anything...
...Dang's new neighbors welcomed him, his wife and their six children warmly. "The local paper wrote about us," he reports, "and townspeople came to give us furniture and kitchen utensils-all that we needed. We were very moved...