Word: norths
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...what used to be the government of China becomes an entity officially designated as "the people on Taiwan"; the U.S. embassy in Taiwan becomes the American Institute, a nonprofit organization incorporated under the laws of the District of Columbia; the Taiwanese embassy in Washington becomes the Coordination Council for North American Affairs, an "instrumentality established by the people on Taiwan." Inscrutable though these new "instrumentalities" may appear, they will enable the U.S. and Taiwan to preserve all their previous economic, legal and cultural ties...
...wasted. President Carter pushed through a bill that would reduce the machine and streamline it, but veteran bureaucrats expect little change. Their methods of resistance were described in unusual detail in the New Republic earlier this month by a Department of Agriculture insider who called himself James North. He also changed the names of his fellow employees. Excerpts...
...angry Communist neighbors and cultures that have been antagonistic for 2,000 years, three divisions of invading Chinese troops descended on Dong Dang and on the Vietnamese coastal plain to the east in giant pincers aimed at Lang Son. Battalions of the Vietnamese regular army hauling heavy weapons rushed north to meet them head-on and force a confrontation that could be the first major battle of the week-long war. In preparation, China threw three fresh divisions against forward Vietnamese defenses. At week's end Vietnamese forces launched a counterattack in three border provinces...
...obvious that the front-line units of China's huge, 3% million-man land army and those of Viet Nam's leaner but highly honed 615,000 troops were not embracing. At dawn on Saturday, Feb. 17, Chinese forces, massed more than 300,000 strong north of Viet Nam in Yunnan and Kwangsi provinces, loosed a massive artillery barrage on key border positions. Hardest hit were Vietnamese concentrations around the cities of Lao Cai, Muong Khuong, Cao Bang, Lang Son and Mong Cai. The People's Liberation Army, untested in major formation warfare since it crossed the Yalu River...
...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...