Word: nams
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Abroad, said Sisco, "the perception of the U.S. in the world today is that we have become paralyzed as a result of the Viet Nam syndrome." However, Sisco finds the public mood changing more rapidly than policymakers realize: "I am absolutely convinced that the Viet Nam syndrome is not broadly shared in the U.S., that the American people went through a psychological trauma at the gas station in 1974, and they are damned tired of appearing to be pushed around. I believe the American people have largely put Viet Nam behind them: they know what we are talking about when...
...China's punitive war against Viet Nam, who was punishing whom...
...Panda cigarette as he aimed an unmistakable rebuke at what Peking considers the jelly-bellied Western response to adventurism by the Soviets and their clients. Teng also gave the fullest explanation yet of the motives behind China's two-week-old "punitive" invasion of its southern neighbor, Viet Nam. In an effort to placate international alarm, he repeated assurances that the operation "will be limited in degree and will not last a long time," perhaps no longer than China's four-week invasion of India in 1962. There were reports at week's end, in fact, that...
...truce. The Soviet Union last week cranked up its warnings of possible intervention another notch by demanding that "the aggressor be made to get out immediately." Meanwhile, there was a strong feeling in Hanoi that the Chinese were facing an awkward dilemma. They had occupied border areas of Viet Nam, but without having faced battle-hardened units of the country's regular army. A further advance south toward Hanoi meant risking a serious extension of supply lines and reprisal by the Soviet Union. On the other hand, a unilateral withdrawal would expose Peking's threat to "punish...
...space. Communiques from both sides grew increasingly Delphian, as if the combatants were joined in a conspiracy of silence. Despite the official statements-which invariably included grossly exaggerated accounts of dead and wounded-Western analysts believed that up to 150,000 Chinese regular soldiers, arrayed across all of 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...