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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...That statement seemed to confirm the initial Western interpretation of the possible Chinese objective: a swift, hit-and-run offensive, and then go home. But the Chinese were not yet ready to withdraw. At this point the Chinese shock troops, led by General Yang Teh-chih, China's deputy field commander in the Korean War, had not tangled directly with Viet Nam's crack regular army?battle-tested by victorious successive campaigns in South Viet Nam, Laos and Cambodia and equipped with the latest sophisticated Soviet hardware...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A War of Angry Cousins | 3/5/1979 | See Source »

Army. The Chinese, moreover, have primitive battlefield communications; they still sometimes use runners and bicyclists. The Vietnamese are equipped with modern radio and field telephones, many of them American-made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: The Military Balance | 3/5/1979 | See Source »

Another of Harvard's freshman hydroplanes, Ron Raikula, appears likely to join Hackett and superb Cornell diver Paul Steck in the exclusive double-winners' club. Raikula, who smoked the field last night in the 400 IM, should win his specialty--the 200-yd. backstroke--by as much as a full second...

Author: By Robert Grady, | Title: Princeton Stays Within Range | 3/3/1979 | See Source »

...took only fourth in last night's 100--"his best event" according to coach Farely. So he may not be able to swipe the gold in the 200 fly final--which might include Harvard hero Mike Coglin and hopefully will see Campari Knoepfler and Dan Menichella in the field...

Author: By Robert Grady, | Title: Princeton Stays Within Range | 3/3/1979 | See Source »

John L. Mason, attorney for Cambridge and Somerville Legal Services Inc., field a complaint Tuesday for the four residents alleging the city has not hired the additional 12 state sanitary code enforcers required by the November 30 ordinance...

Author: By Steven J. Sampson, | Title: Somerville Rent Control Ends; Tenants Await Court Decision | 3/3/1979 | See Source »

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