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China's assault on Viet Nam was expected and well advertised. Tensions had been building up ever since Hanoi's forced expulsion of ethnic Chinese last spring, Viet Nam's lightning rout of Peking's client regime in Cambodia last month, and an intensifying series of incidents on the China-Viet Nam border. Vice Premier Teng Hsiao-p'ing repeatedly and publicly telegraphed the punch during his U.S. visit this month, railing against the "hegemonistic" ambitions of the Soviet "polar bear" and against Vietnamese "aggression" in Southeast Asia. Hanoi "has to be taught a necessary lesson," he warned. In Tokyo...
...first eight minutes of the second half, Columbia outscored the Crimson 23-9, opened up a 17-point lead and turned an interesting contest into a rout...
...Lynah Rink in Ithaca, N.Y., The Blowout. Cornell scored three quick goals within two minutes just to show the Crimson who was boss and who would experience the ECAC play-offs vicariously, then added five more in the opening stanza on the way to a leisurely 11-3 rout...
Wendy Sonnabend, playing in the number five position, recorded an incredibly rare 15-0 rout, while sixth-slotted Stone and fifth-ranked freshman Courtney Stimpson both registered 15-1 triumphs...
...what Schlesinger had said, but on the Iranian situation itself.) Blumenthal forcefully reiterated that the Administration remains committed to maintaining stable market conditions for the dollar. Currency traders took this as a sign that the U.S. was prepared to intervene massively in the money markets to prevent a dollar rout, and the slide stopped, though the greenback still closed out the week lower than it began it. In fact, the Schlesinger-Blumenthal performance accomplished little except to underscore the trouble that the Administration is having in saying or doing anything effective to deal with the Iranian oil problem...