Word: cong
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...President and the Prime Minister also declared that Saigon had to be a "full participant in any negotiations designed to bring about a settlement of the conflict." Johnson did not say as much, but implicit in that guarantee is the understanding that the Viet Cong would also eventually have to take part. In fact, two female members of the N.L.F. are already in Paris for a conference of Communist women; two high-ranking men are in Prague awaiting the green light...
...After that, they expect the U.S. to offer a $1 billion rebuilding program to the North while Hanoi agrees in turn to quit using the Demilitarized Zone as a staging area and to halt infiltration. Then will come the thorniest issue of all-the future role of the Viet Cong in the South...
...just that. Shelling, mortaring and rocketing 122 targets throughout South Viet Nam, including 40 cities and towns, seven airbases and dozens of other allied installations, they staged the long-expected reprise of their countrywide Tet offensive. Round 2 did not come near the original. The North Vietnamese and Viet Cong did not overrun a single allied town or installation, launched ground attacks only in Saigon. One captured Viet Cong document outlined their limited goals: "Our immediate requirement is to carry out harassment fire, and the current requirement is to create pressure over peace talks between our representatives and American representatives...
...avoid arrest. The Alliance has proclaimed a platform that calls for the neutrality of North and South Viet Nam. Clearly, by sugar-coating the pill, the Communists hope to build the Alliance into a full-scale political entity that would be acceptable in a coalition government, as the Viet Cong and N.L.F. would...
...tactics and techniques of jungle and rice-paddy fighting, and stateside training was rapidly adapted to fit the situation. Today I consider our soldiers and Marines considerably more proficient in the type of combat that occurs in Viet Nam than the North Vietnamese troops and better than most Viet Cong units...