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...Chinese invasion of Viet Nam and the Soviet warnings of armed retaliation against China produced a new convulsion in a world already alarmed by the turmoil in the Middle East and Africa (see WORLD). While the fighting did not immediately involve U.S. interests-indeed the U.S. could take some ironic satisfaction from this conflict among the Communist powers, and in Viet Nam of all places-the prospect of a wider war was deeply disturbing. If the Soviets became involved, would the fighting spread beyond Viet Nam? And was there any way for the U.S. to contain it? "We will...
...events. China, despite its pretensions of becoming a global force, met with no success in its efforts to prevent a Vietnamese invasion of Cambodia. The Soviet Union, despite its nearly one million troops on the Chinese border, was unable to prevent China's openly announced punitive expedition into Viet Nam. The U.S. lost its own direct influence in Indochina in 1975 when the remnants of the once mighty American presence there abandoned the crumbling citadel of Saigon...
...normalization requires the abrogation of Washington's 1954 Mutual Defense Treaty with Taiwan, and many key Senators were dismayed that the U.S. had won no promise from Peking not to regain Taiwan by force. Their concern was especially germane in light of the current Chinese invasion of Viet Nam. Conservative members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee demanded that the enabling legislation for the opening of relations include a strong reassertion of U.S. guarantees to protect Taiwan. For a time, they thought they had the support of both Committee Chairman Frank Church and ranking Republican Member Jacob Javits. Both...
...horse. How Texas Rangers, men he admired, just kept coming at you even though they were shot. How he could not be a man to back away from a fight. There are some historians who believe L.B.J.'s narrow view of courage led us deeper into Viet...
...perhaps apocryphal vow that "we will not go to war over any damn Ding Dong." At Lang Son, a crowded market town nine miles to the southeast, a nipple-crested mountain that colonial troops named the "baroness's breast" overlooks the ruins of a fort demolished even before the Viet Minh's war against the French...