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...Vietnamese who have fought against us are not machines. Indeed, it seems likely that a Viet Cong soldier setting out to battle is no more anxious to die than an American. The Vietnamese who have fought against the overwhelming power of the United States for the past four-and-a-half years are not of a different species from ours. Like people anywhere, the Vietnamese feel pain, have love affairs, like to dance, and carry pictures of their families in their wallets. The bravery and devotion of these people can't be explained by racial stereotypes: to understand why they...
...Controversy. The delegates haggled over which Cambodia to recognize, the Lon Nol regime in Phnom-Penh or Prince Sihanouk's outfit in Peking; they decided to seat neither. Mme. Nguyen Thi Binh, foreign minister of the Viet Cong's Provisional Revolutionary Government, was welcomed as an observer after a debate that Kaunda dismissed as merely "a bit of controversy." The "nonaligned" posture of the conference was bent even further when Zambian police arrested 16 Western reporters and deported three of them. The men were detained, explained the Zambian government, because "the monopoly press of the West" was seeking...
...government is also gaining support in rural areas. As Thieu told TIME last week: "I think the countryman has more confidence in us today. The Viet Cong are now trying to rebuild their strength in the countryside, but it is too late." Last week Thieu handed out the first titles under a 2.5 million-acre land-reform program designed to gain peasant support...
...joined by a rainbowed trunk. Some stop fetchingly just above the navel, others stretch down to the ankle. Almost all flaunt a symbol, and the range is all-encompassing. The ideological warriors can sport the peace sign, the clenched fist marking Women's Liberation or even the Viet Cong flag. Exhibitionists will love the startling model imprinted with a properly located life-size photo of a pair of breasts. Optimists can don a shirt featuring a rainbow with a slice of pie-pie in the sky, of course. A satin applique style shows a country cabin with smoke curling...
Recent captured Communist documents have recognized the importance of the cities in the design for an ultimate victory. As one Viet Cong directive puts it, "The urban front is an important strategic area." Taking issue with the more optimistic Huntington view, SCAG Director Hatcher James says: "If things get bad, the Communist organizers will be in the slum neighborhoods, promising the sky. We've got to improve conditions before that time comes." But South Viet Nam's cities are already developing many of the same fateful characteristics that have caused despair and urban terrorism in other parts...