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...bridges and railroads as 1 they withdrew, in order to sanitize the border against future [I Vietnamese mischief. Peking also hinted that it might send back some troops in several disputed border enclaves-an affront to Hanoi's delicate sensibilities. Although the Vietnamese escaped punishment, Premier Pham Van Dong is unlikely to forget the humiliation of the invasion, and might launch a few guerrilla forays of his own across the frontier with China. There are also potential domestic implications for the People's Republic. The inconclusive outcome of the war may have hurt the prestige of Vice Premier...
...west, as the bulk of the Chinese offensive doubled its penetration to ten or 15 miles, PLA infantry captured Lao Cai, a rail center of 100,000 on the Red River. To counter this threat to Hanoi, the Vietnamese marched north to engage the Chinese at Lang Son and Dong Dang...
...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...
...minus one, Pham Van Dong, Army Chief of Staff General Van Tien Dung and other Cabinet members flew to Phnom-Penh to sign a friendship treaty with the new Heng Samrin regime. The absence of Viet Nam's top officialdom from Hanoi may have helped determine the timing of Peking's attack...
...operated by the ethnic Chinese. All of the Red River delta's major arteries south of Hanoi feature Communist-run "floating markets" that offer goods stolen from ships or directly off the docks at Haiphong. Conspicuous consumption among Communist officials has become so flagrant that Premier Pham Van Dong felt it necessary to issue a prevailing order: "At a time when the people in several areas are experiencing privations and hunger, it is absolutely necessary to refrain from organizing wasteful celebrations and feasts. All sectors and all levels should uphold an exemplary spirit by practicing economy in production...