Word: withdrawals
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Taking Peking's avowals at face value, Western intelligence experts predicted that the Chinese offensive would be limited to a "punitive lesson," and once the punishment had been meted out, the troops would withdraw. But in capitals around the world there were shudders at the ominous global implications if the war were not contained and short-lived, if it were to provoke direct Soviet intervention or retaliation on behalf of their Vietnamese client. It was a heyday for alarmists: "I would bet that it won't happen?but we are very much in danger of a third world...
...diplomat that the invasion would be "circumspect" and "will not be extended or expanded in any way." That statement seemed to confirm the initial Western interpretation of the possible Chinese objective: a swift, hit-and-run offensive, and then go home. But the Chinese were not yet ready to withdraw. At this point the Chinese shock troops, led by General Yang Teh-chih, China's deputy field commander in the Korean War, had not tangled directly with Viet Nam's crack regular army?battle-tested by victorious successive campaigns in South Viet Nam, Laos and Cambodia and equipped with...
Chinese-American relations. U.S. policy was based on the notion that this country should not become involved in a conflict among far-off Communist states. Thus Washington evenhandedly urged Peking and Hanoi to withdraw their troops from both Viet Nam and Cambodia. Pursuing its honest-broker role, the U.S. also pressed for an urgent meeting of the United Nations' Security Council, hoping to rally enough votes for a resolution calling for reciprocal withdrawal...
TRIBE'S MEMO outlines the various procedural questions a convention might pose and points out that the Constitution does not say where power to resolve them lies. They include whether a state can withdraw its request for a convention, what possible time limit there might be on a state's request, how to choose the delegates and apportion votes in the convention, and whether the convention should refuse to propose an amendment it was summoned to consider. Although the Constitution never mentions these questions, there is no reason to expect Congress will meet serious opposition to an act outlining...
Peking's official news agency, Hsinhua, called the expedition a "counterattack to defend the country's borders." Most observers believed that the Chinese would withdraw after "punishing" the Vietnamese. But U.S. officials were nonetheless alarmed by the ominous step-up in tensions between the erstwhile allies. The administration called on both nations to withdraw their respective forces from foreign territory, and also urged the Soviet Union, now Hanoi's chief patron and bankroller, to act with restraint. Said State Department Spokesman Hodding Carter III at a hastily called press conference: "We are committed to the territorial integrity...