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...They [the North Vietnamese] had about 30 tanks and many of us were killed. We kill many VC, but they too strong." When I met the sergeant, he was preparing to move north again toward the besieged city of An Loc. His unit was in the village of Lai Khe, 30 miles south of An Loc, which was being used as the base for the buildup of the relief column...
...next day, the column moved 13 miles north to Chon Thanh, a lazy town of tin houses with thatched roofs between Lai Khe and An Loc. The townspeople, exuding the blithe fatalism common to many Vietnamese, seemed to be enjoying the show. "Some people are scared," confessed Restaurateur, Tu Ca, "but not enough to leave. Some of the rich have taken their children to Saigon, but all the regular people stay." Ca intended to stay and defend his reputation for serving the town's best chao long (a soup concocted of pork, noodles and vegetables...
...When the flowers are in bloom," Chou En-lai promised. Sure as spring, the Red Chinese returned the first service of Ping Pong diplomacy by dispatching its world champion table tennis team to the U.S. Scheduled to begin a nine-city tour in Detroit this week, the team first journeyed to Canada, where it defeated the local talent with Oriental restraint. The Chinese youngsters also showed a keen sense of diplomacy away from their paddles. As their bus pulled up to an Ottawa hotel, the team startled onlookers by bursting into a chorus of Alouelte...
Charles F. Freeman, chief U.S. Interpreter during the Peking talks between President Nixon and Chou-en-Lai, said last night. "I watched the Chief Imperialist of the world toast the murderous mastermind of the Maoist bandits...
Huang, 64, is a close associate of Chou En-lai and the only Chinese ambassador who is a member of the party's Central Committee. Huang participated in the Long March and rose to major general during the war against the Nationalists. Arthur Watson, 52, has little diplomatic experience. Until his appointment to the Paris embassy in 1970, Watson, a son of the builder of International Business Machines, was chairman of the company's overseas operations. That background should come in handy on trade problems. To help resolve other matters, the State Department plans either to station...