Soviet Troop Buildup Charged
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PEKING — China has accused the Soviet Union of massing 1 million troops along the Sino-Soviet frontier, issuing the protest just days before Chinese officials are to fly to Moscow to sign a major trade pact.
China has cut the number of its frontier guards “in sharp contrast to a superpower’s deploying a million troops along the Chinese border,” the official New China News Agency quoted top Chinese Army leader Yang Shangkun as saying today.
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