Vietnam border quiet
NZPA-Reuter Peking China said yesterday that fighting along its border with Vietnam had subsided since last Thursday, but remained silent on Hanoi’s claim to have killed 1500 Chinese troops. “Since January 8, apart from sporadic shelling against our side from Vietnamese troops, it is generally quiet along the Sino-Vletnamese border,” the Foreign Ministry said in a brief statement Ministry officials declined to comment on Vietnam’s claim that about 1500 Chinese were killed in clashes earlier in the week in Ha Tuyen province, 265 km north of Hanoi. Diplomats said the casualty figure, if confirmed, would be the highest since February, 1979, when China briefly invaded northern Vietnam, shortly after the Vietnamese invaded Kampuchea
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Press, 12 January 1987, Page 8
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