Word: frontier
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...were beginning to creep into the official considerations. On that evening Kennedy walked over to the globe beside his desk, gave it a twirl, and traced with his finger the perimeter of the free world. How long could the U.S. continue to be the principal guardian of that endless frontier? he asked...
...frontier has changed, the nations on both sides have changed, and the convulsions seem to be accelerating. Carter's recent statements declining the role of world policeman have signaled almost everybody, intentionally or not, that as nations jostle for advantage, the U.S. plans to be just another member of the club...
...Viet Nam's six northernmost provinces, had captured or laid siege to eleven districts and at least 20 towns. The Chinese claimed to have destroyed six missile sites and a number of communications centers. The estimated 70,000 Vietnamese troops committed thus far, still mostly regional frontier forces and local militia rather than elite regular divisions, being held in reserve, repulsed some attacks and absorbed others for the sake of subsequent counterattacks...
...Saturday, mortar shells descended near Lang Son, according to an Agence France-Presse correspondent on the scene. To the north, heavy artillery shells could be heard every ten to 30 seconds. "Chinese troops have launched a general attack, all the frontier posts are being shelled by heavy artillery," a Vietnamese provincial official announced. "Bloody fighting is taking place, human casualties are certainly heavy." Said a wounded 18-year-old Vietnamese soldier named Trien Van Mien, who staggered into town and fell in the road: "The Chinese are close by, they are everywhere...
...available reserves in southern China are immense if the conflict should widen. China currently has about 1.6 million men along the Soviet border-a force that Peking may decide to augment if Moscow raises the combat readiness of its own 1 million troops on the frontier in response to the crisis. One tactical plus for the PLA is that many of Hanoi's forces are tied down in Cambodia or Laos and cannot be readily transferred to the war in the north...