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The semicomic scramble to avoid a meeting brought into the spotlight once more the Sino-Soviet rivalry for favor in North Viet Nam.

From Time Magazine Archive

This semicomic tragedy opened the Thirty Years' War.

From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 11 by Johnson, Rossiter