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...whatever Phil lacked in credibility, he made up for in humor. One of the passengers' many chuckles came at the Bunker Hill Monument when Phil said. "It takes about 10 or 15 minutes to walk to the top, ten or 15 minutes to walk to the bottom and, as I recall, ten days to recover." Whatever...
Fair Fight. As an apparent indication of Washington's concern, U.S. Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker invited Ky to lunch last week and reportedly urged him to remain in the race, assuring him that the U.S. desired a fair fight. But many Vietnamese and Americans alike wonder whether that is really what Washington wants. They are deeply concerned that the U.S. has become over-identified with Thieu. Accordingly, four former AID employees have launched an intensive lobbying campaign in Washington to reinforce U.S. neutrality during the Vietnamese elections. They advocate creation of a U.S. congressional commission to "observe and study...
Strong Words. Some Vietnamese charge that the real motive behind the current U.S. investigations is to protect American smugglers against their Vietnamese competitors. One newspaper cited the case of Maj. Delbert W. Fleener, occasional pilot for Ambassador Bunker, who was convicted last year of smuggling 850 pounds of opium into Viet Nam from Thailand aboard Air Force planes. The daily Chuong Viet dismissed the flap over narcotics as an attempt by Washington to give the U.S. public a new excuse for getting its men out of Viet Nam. "Could it be," asked the paper, "that the U.S. Government now realizes...
...interpretation, however, is a careless reading of Washington's mood. Last week New York's Republican Senator Jacob Javits warned in a Saigon press conference that the narcotics scandal was "the kind of issue that could upset everything"-meaning the continuation of U.S. military and economic aid. Bunker, in a strongly worded note, told Thieu much the same thing...
Monday, the veterans-many of whom had been arrested at Lexington-marched from the Bunker Hill monument in Charlestown to City Square, across the Charlestown bridge, and along the Freedom Trail to Faneuil Hall, where they rested for twenty minutes before going to the Common...