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Western Carolinian Volume 44 Number 22

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  • PAGE 16/THE WESTERN CAROLINIAN/FEBRUARY 22, 1979 China preparing to attack? by VISETSAK SANGUANPONG Associated Press Writer Three divisions of China's best troops were moving into position along the Vietnamese coast today for a lightening attack aimed at cutting off supply lines to Vietnamese units defending the Lang Son border region, intelligence sources in Bangkok said. In Peking, an official Chinese source said China hopes to pull its invasion force out of Vietnam in a few days, Japan's Kyodo news service reported from the Chinese capital. But he reportedly said that if regular Vietnamese army troops join the fighting, it might be prolonged. The sources here said the Chinese themselves apparently were readying for an all-out attack against regular Vietnamese troops brought up to the Lang Son area, 75 miles northeast of Hanoi. These sources said Peking is then expected to withdraw most of its forces from Vietnam, possibly within three or four days. Vietnamese Radio Hanoi reported heavy fighting Tuesday, fourth day of the border war, in an area between Lang Son, the major town in the northeast frontier area, and the border village of Dong Dang, seven miles to the north. The broadcast said Vietnamese forces "put a company of Chinese troops out of action, destroyed five tanks, and captured all the enemies' weapons." Radio Hanoi also said a Chinese division Tuesday attacked in an area closer to the coast, around the villages of Than Rhung, Po Hen and Cao Ba Lanh, but Vietnamese forces "trounced three battalions and wiped out 700 Chinese aggressors." The Vietnamese "put out of action" 3,000 Chinese in the fighting Tuesday in Vietnam's northeast corner, the broadcast said. At the western end of the front Tuesday, the Chinese captured Lao Cai, northwest Vietnam's major communications and railway center on the Red River, the Soviet news agency Tass reported from Hanoi. The invaders were said to be 10 to 12 miles inside Vietnamese terrority at some points. They, too, claimed to have inflicted thousands of casualties. Vietnamese militia units have had to bear most of the defense burden since the Chinese invaded last Saturday, but it was reported that Vietnamese regular army units were sent to the Lang Son front Tuesday. This morning, three divisions of elite Chinese troops backed by heavy tanks were moving into Quang Ninh Province with the objective of swinging in behind the Vietnamese units at Lang Son and Dong Dang and severing their highway lifelines to the south, the intelligence sources said. Pospisil to lecture at WCU •NEED A TOW? Have you ever been crusing along, feeling good, and all of a sudden you started feeling like Mario Andretti with Niki Lauda coming up fast on the inside? Or was it one of those famous German air aces with a squadron of Spitfires on your tail? Well, either way, you zigged when you should have zagged, and ended up in a ditch. Time to start thinking about a wrecker right? Call Harold Keener of Cullowhee Wrecker Service, and he 11 fix you up right away. It won't cost you an arm and a leg, either. CULLOWHEE WRECKER SERVICE Yale University anthropologist Leopold Pospisil will present two lectures at Western Tuesday under the sponsorship of the WCU Visiting Scholars Program. He will speak on the subject, "Warfare in a Primitive Society," at 7 p.m. in Forsyth Auditorium, and will discuss "Contrasting Behavioral Patterns of Europe and America" at 2 p.m. in Room 113 of Stillwell Science Building. The evening lecture will be accompanied by rare film footage of warfare among a primitive New Guinea people. Dr. Pospisil currently serves as professor of anthropology at Yale and curator of anthropology at the Peabody Museum of Natural History in New Haven, Conn. A specialist in cross-cultural study of legal and economic behavior, he has conducted field research in North America among the Eskimos and Hopi, in Europe, and in New Guinea. A native Czechoslovakian, Pospisil has been in the U.S. since 1949. He holds he bachelor's degree from Willamette University, the master's from the University of Oregon, and the Ph.D. from Yale. He has published ten books on law and the Kapauku Papuans of New Guinea, and his most recent work, "Man and Culture," is now in press. Pospisil is a fellow of the American Anthropological Association, Sigma Xi, the Czechoslovak Academy of Ails and Sciences, and the New York Academy of Sciences. Admission to both programs is free to Ihe public. 293-9383 293-5084 Forest Hills Motor Lodge Free Golf & Tennis Restaurant Open Nightly Kitchenettes Check Our Low Winter Rates 293-5442 QUINI Shows 7 & 9:10 ITS TWO TWO NGW NGW MOVr€5 IN ONG. 01JIN Trfl)\TJiK: East Sylva Shopping Center QUIN II They're Back Again!! Shows 7 & 9:15 It was the Deltas against the rules... the rules lost! NATIONAL JLAMPtiNs animal ummm GEORGE C SCOTT "MOVIE MOYIP Starts Friday and plays through March 1st A UNIVERSAL PICTURE TECHNICOLOR® RlBESTRICTEIHg*
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