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...becomes increasingly difficult to praise Vice Premier Teng Hsiao-p'ing for his negotiations with the U.S. when Chinese troops plunder Viet Nam [March 5]. Our country does not need another Viet Nam crisis...
...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...
Journalists and diplomats trying to make sense of it were already calling China's invasion of Viet Nam the "Great Inscrutable War." All things considered, it was probably the most bedeviling and worst-reported major conflict in recent history. The result: misinformation (mostly on casualty figures), unbridled speculation and wild surmise. Items...
...Western newsmen were allowed to the war zone from the Chinese side, and only a very few approached it through Viet Nam. Only two U.S. news organizations, United Press International and CBS-TV, managed to get near the front for a short time. They accompanied U.S. Congresswoman Elizabeth Holtzman on an escorted excursion from Hanoi to Lang Son, and disproved the report that it had fallen to the Chinese...
...science has begun to nose around in that shifty terrain it so long neglected. Tenuous scientific probes of the happiness phenomenon, as an aspect of mental health, were organized as long ago as the 1960s. Perhaps because happiness itself was all but out of style in the days of Viet Nam, urban riots and the burgeoning dope culture, the trend never took off. Only now is it becoming clear that our gladness is likely to be subjected to the same methodical research and analysis that has been lavished for generations on our madness. The signs that happyology is aborning...