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...partitioning of the issues. The U.S. and North Viet Nam would bilaterally negotiate military matters, the most important being the mutual withdrawal of their forces from South Vietnamese soil. The South Vietnamese government of President Nguyen Van Thieu and the National Liberation Front, the political organization of the Viet Cong, would meanwhile work out together the terms and conditions of their coexistence once the guns fall silent...
Look magazine sent Churchill in 1966 to Viet Nam, where he flew in air strikes against the Viet Cong, shared trenches with U.S. infantrymen and concluded: "More than ever I am convinced that Britain must stand behind the U.S. in Viet Nam." With fortunate timing, he arrived in Israel just before the war with the Arabs broke out in 1967 and he covered it for the London Evening News. He also got a wire from his father, Randolph: SUGGEST WE DO JOINT RUSH BOOK. WHAT DO YOU SAY? Their book, The Six Day War, sold 170,000 copies in Britain...
...their part, Viet Cong and North Vietnamese Communist troops were still confident of their ability to strike. While Viet Nam five weeks ago uneasily celebrated Tet, the main holiday of the year, Communist troops filtered stealth ily out of their sanctuaries toward major targets throughout the country. When the Buddhist Year of the Rooster was still only six days old, they were ready to sound their own sobering crow: a co ordinated offensive against practically every population and military center in South Viet Nam. Significantly, they chose to attack most often with long-range firepower, indicating that their numbers...
...served to underscore the urgency of building a strong government in Saigon. There is almost no way for the U.S. to disengage completely from the war until it can be turned over to a durable South Vietnamese government commanding trained and equipped troops, able to handle the indigenous Viet Cong who remain after all the North Vietnamese soldiers return home...
Meanwhile the other side cannot very well sit there and let the United States and the South Vietnamese governments do what ever hey want. The recent attacks, therefore, do not mean that the Viet Cong are making their last efforts to influence the peace talks. What it means is that since President Thieu defines peace as the death of all the communists and also of the "peace pretenders," and since his effort is backed directly or indirectly by the presence of a large foreign force with all this war-making gadgetry, the war must...