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Otherwise, diplomats and news agencies were largely dependent on the self-serving communiques issued by Hanoi radio and the official Vietnamese party newspaper Nhan Dan, on the one hand, and the official Chinese news agency, Hsinhua, on the other. Hsinhua was particularly par simonious, limiting itself mostly to unenlightening announcements that "fighting was continuing." Consequently, most information and judgments came from other Asian capitals far from the front and from Washington, which provided bird's-eye data gleaned by reconnaissance satellites...
...declaration of war came in a transparently disingenuous Peking announcement that its forces were engaged in a "counterattack" against Vietnamese provocations. "The Chinese frontier forces took the action when the situation became intolerable and there was no alternative," said the official Hsinhua News Agency. "We don't want a single inch of Vietnamese soil. What we want is a stable and peaceful frontier. After hitting back at the aggressors as far as necessary, our frontier forces will turn to guard strictly the frontiers of our motherland...
Peking's official news agency, Hsinhua, called the expedition a "counterattack to defend the country's borders." Most observers believed that the Chinese would withdraw after "punishing" the Vietnamese. But U.S. officials were nonetheless alarmed by the ominous step-up in tensions between the erstwhile allies. The administration called on both nations to withdraw their respective forces from foreign territory, and also urged the Soviet Union, now Hanoi's chief patron and bankroller, to act with restraint. Said State Department Spokesman Hodding Carter III at a hastily called press conference: "We are committed to the territorial integrity...
...cutthroat world of Communist politics, there are no second chances-with one exception. Last week Peking's official Hsinhua News Agency announced that the Central Committee of the Communist Party had voted to restore Teng Hsiao-p'ing, 73, to his former posts as Vice Premier, Vice Chairman of the party and Chief of Staff of the Army. At the same time, said the communique, the "Gang of Four" headed by Mao Tse-tung's widow, Chiang Ch'ing, had "once and for all" been expelled from the party and dismissed "from all posts inside...
...Hsinhua communique disclosed, the 160-member Central Committee met secretly in Peking from July 16 to July 21. Its purpose: to consider the rehabilitation of Teng and the final debasement of Chiang Ch'ing and her gang. While the committee was casting its vote, visitors to an exhibition in Peking commemorating Chou En-lai noted that there were 24 photographs of Teng standing beside the man he had hoped to succeed as Premier...