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...number of raids. In its effort to intensify the strains be tween the U.S. and South Viet Nam, Hanoi had unexpected help. In a carelessly phrased comment during an appearance in Maine, Hubert Humphrey said that the conferees had "now" agreed to admit representatives of the Viet Cong and the Saigon regime to the negotiations. At some point, that is going to happen, if the talks are to continue; but it has not happened yet, and Humphrey's gaffe sent tremors through Saigon...
...Southeast Asia was discussed. Moreover, the U.S. is hoping that Hanoi is bargaining for something more than just time. One purpose of North Viet Nam's initially intransigent stance, aside from habit, may well be to convince Peking that there will be no sellout of the Viet Cong-just as the U.S. is constantly reassuring its allies that it will not abandon Saigon...
Beginning in 1966, he expressed his doubts with increasing vehemence. His proposal two years ago, that the Viet Cong be assured a role in South Viet Nam's future political life, brought an angry rebuttal from the Administration; today some such arrangement seems likely if a settlement is to be negotiated. Despite the rift with the White House, Kennedy insisted that he had no 1968 ambitions; that he would support Johnson regardless of the war. He maintained this posture even after Eugene McCarthy challenged Johnson last fall on grounds virtually indistinguishable from Kennedy's. It was then that Kennedy felt...
...freelance Australian journalist, escaped to tell the story. The group had been riding in a jeep around Saigon when they noticed a column of smoke rising above the Cholon section. Heading for the smoke, they soon found themselves moving through a stream of refugees fleeing the Viet Cong. Some tried to warn them with shouts of "V.C.! V.C.!", but they kept going until they arrived at an empty intersection-and then it was too late. Cantwell, who was driving, tried to put the jeep in reverse. Before he could, two Viet Cong opened fire. Palmos jumped out of the jeep...
...execution of the correspondents was one of the more brutal acts of a brutal enemy. "Obviously the men did not know that the Viet Cong held the street," William Rademaekers, TIME bureau chief in Saigon, reported last week. "And in the shifting nature of the war, where one street is secure at 9 a.m. and V.C.-held at 10, they cannot be accused of naivete or recklessness. The fighting is inevitably close in, and the chances of getting caught in a crossfire are immeasurably greater. Street fighting is as new to most correspondents as it is to most...