Word: hanoi
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...were aged, others babes in arms. With the all too familiar misery of the homeless etched on their faces, the wretched bands made their way out of Viet Nam across the Nanhsi River into China. Elsewhere along the Sino-Vietnamese border, near Tunghsing, 52 escapees were fired on by Hanoi's troops as they tried to flee across the Gulf of Tonkin in a flotilla of tiny fishing boats...
Hauntingly reminiscent of the Viet Nam War, those scenes of human agony were shown on television newscasts across China last week. The dramatic scenes reflected an extraordinary political scenario: the virtual collapse of fraternal relations between Hanoi and Peking, which Chinese propagandists had once described as being as close "as lips are to teeth." Complaining bitterly about the Vietnamese government's maltreatment of 1.2 million Chinese whose forebears settled in Viet Nam more than a century ago, the New China News Agency raged that "persecuted and ostracized" Chinese last week were fleeing for safety into the People's Republic...
...early April, after Hanoi announced that all free enterprise in the South had been abolished, the major exodus began. This belated effort to stamp out the vestiges of capitalism was a particular blow to the Chinese, who have long been among South Viet Nam's most thriving businessmen and black marketeers. In the enclave of Cholon, the Chinatown of Ho Chi Minh City (formerly Saigon), Chinese merchants had succeeded in cornering the trade in black-market rice, as well as such luxury goods as American bourbon, Algerian orange juice, German cameras and Tiger Balm from Hong Kong. Ideologically outraged...
...vehemence of the Chinese charges has clearly disconcerted Hanoi, which can scarcely afford more trouble with Peking. Already suffering from severe economic problems, Viet Nam is embroiled in a costly war with its Peking-supported neighbor, Cambodia. Accordingly, the Vietnamese Foreign Ministry has asked Peking to negotiate "in a spirit of friendship" the problems involving the overseas Chinese. Meanwhile, Hanoi's official news agency has dismissed the Chinese atrocity stories as "sheer fabrications...
Please tell the fellow-travelers who wrote "Vietnam: What Have We Learned?" (Crimson, April 12) that if the Bach Mai Hospital were destroyed by American bombers, then it must have had only one patient! According to the Vietnam News Agency (Hanoi), only one patient of the hospital suffered any injuries at all. If the hospital was hit, many more than one patient would have been hurt. It seems unlikely that the hospital was the intended target of the air attack since a major oil storage depot, which is a legitimate war-time target, was located nearby. The exaggerations about American...