Word: northern
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...fuse under the China-Viet Nam explosion had been sputtering for nearly a year. Last spring, intent on consolidating their purer-than-thou socialist revolution, the Vietnamese authorities decided to root out "bourgeois trade" and "dangerous elements," namely ethnic Chinese who had lived for years in northern mining areas, in Danang and in the bustling Cholon district of Saigon (now Ho Chi Minh City). An estimated 160,000 Chinese refugees fled the country, aboard fishing boats or on foot across Friendship Pass, to resettle on communes in Kwangtung and Kwangsi provinces. Meanwhile, a sporadic series of raids and skirmishes that...
...forces engaged on the rugged, inhospitable terrain of northern Viet Nam were the object of intense scrutiny by military analysts last week. In Washington, a task force raised from the U.S. intelligence community began meeting within hours of the Chinese invasion, evaluating what data could be obtained from military communiques and by satellite observation of the battle scene. In Moscow, strategists were equally attentive to the broader implications of the war. How well the People's Liberation Army does in its first real combat test since the Korean War nearly 30 years ago could provide clues to its capability...
That is the rallying cry of a determined armed force that entered southern Uganda a few weeks ago from northern Tanzania. The invaders, composed of recently organized bands of Ugandan exiles, slipped into Uganda amid heavy fighting between regular Tanzanian and Ugandan forces on the border. By last week they had advanced 50 miles and had fought their way to Masaka, a city just 80 miles from Kampala, Uganda's capital. Their goal: to overthrow Idi Amin Dada, 55, the self-styled President-for-Life whose tyrannical regime is believed to have been responsible for the deaths...
...current fighting dates from October, when Amin's forces invaded northern Tanzania, hoping to annex a section of territory that Amin had long coveted. The action caused some 4,000 Ugandans who had previously escaped from their country to gather in Tanzania near the fighting area. There they received rudimentary military training, then crossed the border and began to link up with dissidents inside Uganda...
DIED. Robert George Grosvenor, 68, fifth Duke of Westminster and patriarch of a family whose wealth probably ranks second in Great Britain only to the Queen's; of emphysema; at Enniskillen, Northern Ireland. A descendant of William the Conqueror, Grosvenor served in the Royal Artillery during World War II and in the House of Commons from 1955 to 1964 before inheriting the dukedom from his older brother in 1967. Nine years later he passed along to his son Gerald...