Word: cong
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cease," effective twelve hours after he spoke. "What we now expect-what we have a right to expect-are prompt, productive, serious and intensive negotiations." When those negotiations resume in Paris this week, the morning after the U.S. elections, representatives of both the Saigon government and the Viet Cong are expected to take part-though Johnson emphasized that the Communists' participation "in no way involves" U.S. recognition of the Viet Cong's political representatives. Johnson gave no hint of what, if any, concessions Hanoi offered. Presumably there was some quid pro quo, but in order to spare Hanoi...
...Cyrus Vance and Colonel Ha Van Lau hold "procedural meeting" to work out details for the talks. In Saigon, Viet Cong infiltration of previous ten days tapers off, random sniper and rocket fire ebbs...
July 11: Secretary of Defense Clark Clifford reports North Vietnamese have "up to eight divisions, possibly more," concentrated near the DMZ. Central Committee presidium of the National Liberation Front, political arm of the Viet Cong, meets somewhere in South Viet...
Last week, in fact, workmen were erecting a barbed-wire fence around the National Assembly building, and the already massive palace guard is being built up still more. The barbed wire and the fresh guardsmen are not intended to bolster defenses against the Viet Cong. They are in preparation for what Thieu considers the inevitable, and probably bloody, demonstrations for and against peace...
...secret assault on a Viet Cong stronghold? No. What took place last week was a strike against speculators in Military Payment Certificates, the U.S.-issued scrip used to pay American fighting men in Viet Nam. Colonel Richmond happens to be the U.S. military command's top comptroller, and C-day was the moment chosen for a surprise conversion in the $50 million worth of MFCs in circulation in Viet...