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...Never before in all the history of the Soviet state has such an unbridled anti-Soviet campaign been conducted in any country, even those most hostile to the Soviet Union." The malefactor thus condemned last week by Tass was Red China, whose sparks of civil chaos are falling more on its onetime Communist allies than on anyone else...
...Diplomatic Nose. The Russian embassy in Peking bore the brunt of the Chinese assaults. Since Chinese students and Russian police clashed two weeks ago in Red Square, the Russian embassy has been surrounded day and night by firebrand-tossing, loudspeaker-keening Chinese. It was, said Tass, like a nonstop "witches' sabbath" of "violent abuse and bloodthirsty calls for revenge on the Soviet people." Dancing around a bonfire, the demonstrators stuck effigies of Brezhnev and Kosygin to crosses and set them afire, railed at the Soviet embassy staff cowering inside as "filthy swine, hyenas, rascals and scoundrels." The nearly...
...Tass reported that Red Guards raged through the capital of Peking, sacking and seizing ministries, arresting people at will and generally adding to the anarchy. One Red Guard detachment even arrested another in Peking, and one of the arrested guards turned out to be none other than Chen Siao, son of Chen Yi, Red China's Mao-lining Foreign Minister. Against Mao's teen-age Red Guards, the anti-Mao establishment mobilized tens of thousands of indus trial workers, gave them pay raises and bonuses and sent many of them into Peking or other big cities to protest...
Next day the two targets were hit again, but even before the pilots suited up a second time, Teletypes were clattering around the world. The Soviet correspondent for Tass in Hanoi, the resident Agence France-Presse reporter and Radio Hanoi all claimed that the U.S. raiders the previous day had, as Tass put it, bombed "residential areas within the Hanoi city limits" for the first time, setting houses afire and killing, said Hanoi, more than 100 civilians...
...Tass added that Schulman "persistently tried to penetrate certain academic centers...