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Hardly anyone expected the Chinese bourgeoisie to rise again. But there was no doubt that the purge of "counterrevolutionary" Communists that swept Peking's Mayor Peng Chen from office (TIME, June 10) was spreading rapidly into the provinces. In southern Yunnan province and in neighboring Kweichow, editors of provincial party papers were under fire for spreading "revisionist poison." In Szechwan, a high-ranking official in the party's regional directorate was accused of having shamelessly attacked party cadres. "He has not yet made a confession," snarled the local radio, "but he will not be allowed to sneak...
...corroborated by the Chinese claim of a border dogfight in which one Red Chinese jet was shot down. Peking charged that the plane was engaged in a routine training flight inside Red China when five American "pirates" jumped it with air-to-air missiles and sent it crashing into Yunnan province. U.S. jets were indeed operating in the border area at the time, and claimed a kill themselves-but well over North Vietnamese territory...
...Hanoi (see map). Flights of Air Force Thunderchiefs and Phantoms shattered three rail bridges on the already-mangled Hanoi-Lao Kay line, chewed up 300 yards of track and a railway yard. The Lao Kay-Lang Son line is the only rail link between Red China's Yunnan province and the rest of China, and with the U.S. hitting it twice a week since Sept. 4, all traffic to Yunnan is now moving by highway or air. So far, Peking has not retaliated. "We figured it was a pretty good calculated risk," says a military spokesman...
...Real Risks." To back up Lo's bluster, Red China passed the word that its 200 million-man (and woman) militia had gone into serious training. The mainland press reported shrilly that units on the Yunnan border were engaged in intensive bayonet and machine-gun drill; men and women in blue boiler suits marched briskly through Peking streets with rifles slung...
...facilitate troop and supply movements. Moreover, U.S. pilots were flying missions under new "rules of engagement" authorizing hot pursuit of enemy jets right into Red China, if necessary. So far, it has not been necessary; though Peking now has supersonic MIG-19s and MIG-21s sitting at airbases in Yunnan province, just over the North Viet Nam border, and on Hainan Island, 150 miles east of the Viet Nam coast, the planes have been inactive...