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Word: viets (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...obvious that China, which did not militarily interfere in the U.S.'s Viet Nam War, is now forced for its own safety to continue that war in order to stop Soviet-Vietnamese expansionism in Southeast Asia. The Chinese are indirectly fighting that war for us and the free world. Hans Kukenheim Vancouver...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 26, 1979 | 3/26/1979 | See Source »

Would the Chinese have invaded Viet Nam without the advantage they seem to have gained through normalizing relations with the U.S.? It appears that Teng is playing the U.S. card with skill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 26, 1979 | 3/26/1979 | See Source »

...seems to me that Viet Nam is a little country's imitation of a superpower...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 26, 1979 | 3/26/1979 | See Source »

...Dulles mentality of the '50s, which sees the world as a giant Monopoly game in which the U.S. and the Russians buy, sell or manipulate nations as though they were pieces of cardboard. Iran was not ours to be "lost," any more than was Chi na or Viet Nam. President Carter is absolutely right when he stresses the limited capacity of the U.S. to control events abroad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 26, 1979 | 3/26/1979 | See Source »

China withdraws its troops−and Viet Nam mobilizes

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTHEAST ASIA: Hail the Conquering Heroes | 3/26/1979 | See Source »

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