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...road. Then, 300 yards away, the soldiers appeared again, this time out on the road itself, signaling that I stop. I pulled off the road. They came, guns at the ready. Two Vietnamese. My hands went up, and I whispered the word for journalist: "Bao-chi." Then "Hoa-binh," the Vietnamese words for peace. Then louder: "Bao-chi, bao-chi, bao-chi." One of the soldiers looked at me confusedly. With his rifle, he motioned me out of the car. I got out, hands raised, and spoke again: "Hoa-binh, hoa-binh, hoa-binh." One soldier nodded and repeated...
Within moments, my captors and I were trotting into the jungle. We came to a small command post, and once again I blurted out: "Bao-chi, hoa-binh." They were Viets, all 15 of them, and they understood. Now they began talking, asking me the question I feared most: "My? My? My?" (American? American? American?) I feigned ignorance, and we moved off again, deeper into the trees. The soldiers guided me into a bunker. So this is how it ends, I thought. In some rotten little hole, where no one will find...
...were leaving. There were too many mortars, too many planes. They tied my arms loosely behind my back, and two of them took up guard in front of and behind me. As we began to march off, I looked back at the others and said again, "Hoa-binh...
...Including Hanoi's figurehead President Ton Due Thang, Premier Pham Van Dong and Mrs. Nguyen Thi Binh, head of the Viet Cong delegation to the Paris peace talks. Alumni from Saigon include Phan Khac Suu, chief of state in 1965, and Truong Dinh Dzu, unsuccessful peace candidate in the 1967 presidential elections...
McCarthy, Peretz, and Brown met with Madame Binh, foreign minister of the Provisional Revolutionary Government, through the morning of January 13 and with Xuan Thuy, chief negotiator for the North Vietnamese, the next afternoon...