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...with the Saigon regime for its stalling on the peace talks. Last week the conference was still deadlocked over the shape of the conference table to be provided for the parties-the U.S., South Viet Nam, North Viet Nam and the National Liberation Front, political arm of the Viet Cong. Clifford erupted on TV: "I am becoming inordinately impatient with the continued deaths of American boys in Viet Nam. I would like to get going at the Paris conference...
...Letters column suggests, the variety of choice is greater than ever. Nominations have come in from all over the world. They range from Senator Robert Kennedy to Presidential Candidate Eldridge Cleaver, who is now a fugitive from justice. The crew of the US.S. Pueblo, Ho Chi Mmh, the Viet Cong guerrilla and the U.S. G,I. all received votes. Joe Namath, Charles de Gaulle, Bob Hope, Sirhan Sirhan, the non-hippie student, Richard Nixon, Alexander Dubcek, Abba Eban, Eartha Kitt, Lyndon Johnson-the list grows daily...
...week, Viet Nam should move past Korea into fourth place some time this spring-unless the negotiators in Paris make dramatic progress. The war has been far more expensive for native combatants. South Viet Nam has suffered 73,118 military dead in the past eight years. The Viet Cong and the North Vietnamese, according to an Allied estimate based on sometimes undependable body counts, have lost 422,979 dead since...
...points in South Viet Nam, allied forces last week were placed on alert in anticipation of a new enemy offensive. Captured documents, prisoner interrogations and exhortations broadcast by the clandestine Viet Cong radio pointed to an imminent push-perhaps to coincide with the eighth anniversary of the founding of the guerrillas' National Liberation Front...
While rumors of a new Communist drive have bedeviled Saigon frequently since August, allied officers were not inclined to dismiss the current crop out of hand. Heavy action near the Cambodian border, a sharp upsurge of activity in the Demilitarized Zone and the presence of perhaps 1,000 Viet Cong sappers (demolition experts) and other agents in Saigon all pointed to trouble...