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...Last week Dong Dang and Lang Son had been turned into tormented battlegrounds again. In an escalating war between 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...
...grasp, and despite acres of newsprint, miles of film footage and endless commentaries, nothing is likely to drive home the reality of it all more effectively than the tableau that is to unfold this week: a diminutive (barely 5 ft.), elderly (74 years) Chinese gentleman alighting from a white Boeing 707 at an airport near Washington and plunging into a hectic, week-long visit...
...audience, Richard M. Nixon told 800 guests of Oxford University's prestigious debating society that the crowd outside made him feel "very much at home" and that "I have retired from politics, but I have not retired from life." Nixon addressed the society near the end of a week-long trip to France and England, his first overseas trip since 1976, when he visited China. When he appeared before the Oxford group, the ex-President said of Watergate: "I failed to handle a little thing, which became a big thing-and that colors everything else." He summed...
...This is only the beginning. I'm leaving for Costa Rica just as fast as I can," said one rebellious resident of Esteli, a city which was severely pounded during a week-long assault by the national guard, Nicaragua's 7,500-man army...
...Handlebar Hedonists, to whom Ragbrai is a week-long holiday on spokes, a beer-guzzling and mate-catching challenge. On both scores, they seemed to make out quite well...