Word: rivers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Choice. Other military options in North Viet Nam would go beyond anything the U.S. has done thus far in the war, and would raise the level of conflict to new peaks. Among them: invasion in force of Laos or even North Viet Nam with U.S. troops, bombing the Red River dikes to flood the North's chief food-producing region, or making a direct aerial attack on the key North Vietnamese port of Haiphong. Neither U.S. nor world opinion would stand for any of those, and Nixon's new entente with Western Europe would vanish overnight. Still untried...
...Chinese call it Chen Pao, or Treasure. The Russians call it Damansky. Both claim the tiny, uninhabited island, located in the midst of the frozen Ussuri river that forms the common border of Communism's premier countries. Precisely what happened there last week, in the bleak, snow-swept wilderness of eastern Asia, may never be fully known. Only Moscow has offered the world a reasonably detailed-but doubtless in part self-serving-account. Both Moscow and Peking agree, however, that the violence along the Ussuri was for several hours as close to war as the two countries have come...
Shot Point-Blanlc. As the Russians tell it, the fighting was a coolly calculated, carefully planned act of aggression on the part of the Chinese. Under cover of wintry night, some 300 Chinese soldiers camouflaged in white uniforms crept across the river's ice to the 6,200-sq.-yd. island. Taking advantage of a low hill and the island's trees and shrubs, they dispersed in ambush formation. A second unit concentrated mortars, grenade throwers and heavy machine guns on the Chinese side of the river and strung field telephone lines between the two units...
When morning dawned, 30 armed Chinese appeared on the river bank and crossed over to the island in full view of the Soviet border guards watching from their side of the frontier. That kind of mild intrusion had happened so frequently that the Soviet response was almost a drill routine. The Russian station commander for the area, Senior Lieutenant Strelnikov, took seven of his men and walked out to meet the Chinese. He intended, says Moscow, to protest their intrusion on Soviet territory and ask them to leave. He never got the chance. As the two groups neared each other...
...barefoot on the escalator (it can be a painful way to pare the toenails). For many undergraduates, alienation is more than a matter of drugs, dirty clothes and long hair. Rather than live within the gilded confines of Harvard's residential houses along the Charles River, a few hundred students have moved into nearby slum tenements like the one on University Road where Jane Britton, a 23-year-old graduate anthropology student at Harvard, was murdered in January. The embarrassed slum landlord turned out to be none other than Harvard itself, and the episode only further embittered some citizens...