Article about Chinese Communist deployment in North Vietnam

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Digital Object Identifier: 363-06227
Title: Article about Chinese Communist deployment in North Vietnam
Description: Original title: "focus 6", Article draft about three Chinese infantry divisions being deployed into North Vietnam, for the Christian Science Monitor
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SAIGON, APRIL 15-Late last year, the Chinese Communista
three infantry divisions and supporting elements-about 50,000 men-
d into North Vietnam, in order to fill the vacuum of left
FORMED
TOLIGDIG
by North Vietnamese troops streaming south for the Tet offensive,
sources here report. These Chinese divisions are an addition to the
estimated 50,000 to 70,000 Chinese construction workers who have been
in North Vietnam for several years to help the Hanoi government
maintain their lines of communication agan against American airraids.
While precise details are not available here--and are officially denied-
The Chinese troops are known to be based in the remote areas of the North,
removed from the Vietnamese population conters. Sources here believe
that in case
Hanoi-Washington peace talks and negotiations break down,
North Vietnam is prepared to escalate the ground war in the South,
with vast increases in number of Norther tr Northern troops while relying
on the Chinese troops to cover their rear in case the United States
launches an Inchon-styled invasion into the North from the 7th Fleet.
(Hanka If we could get more details,
60 SINCE
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Date: 1968, Apr. 15
Subject: Vietnam War, 1961-1975; China. Zhongguo ren min jie fang jun; Vietnam (Democratic Republic)--Realtions--China; Vietnam (Democratic Republic). Quân đội
Location: Saigon, South Vietnam
Coordinates: 10.8231; 106.6311
Size: 20 x 26 cm
Container: B11, F4
Format: dispatches
Collection Number: MS 363
Collection Title: Beverly Deepe Keever, Journalism Papers
Creator: Keever, Beverly Deepe
Collector: Keever, Beverly Deepe
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Language: English