Two quarrelsome Communist neighbors, China and Viet Nam, were at it again last week. Ferocious fighting appeared to be underway, resulting in heavy casualties. Both sides had widely differing accounts of how it began. Peking charged that Viet Nam had attacked China's southern border. The official New China News Agency reported that Chinese frontier guards in Yunnan province had repulsed the invaders after ten hours of pitched battle. The Viet Nam News Agency, accusing China of shelling border hamlets, claimed that Chinese troops had seized strategic positions in the north of Viet...
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