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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...
...night of Feb. 26, selected local workers showed up at a "political meeting" at the invitation of the Viet Cong. Their bodies turned up in a grave near a school at Duong Xuan...
...South Vietnamese government absolutely refuses to countenance is a coalition with the Communists. Truong Dinh Dzu, the presidential runner-up in last year's elections, was arrested last week for openly advocating coalition. Nonetheless, many members of the government have long maintained covert contacts with the Viet Cong and its political arm, the National Liberation Front, which is directed by Nguyen Huu Tho, a onetime Saigon lawyer who runs the front from a jungle redoubt. In many cases, the contacts are the residue of common cause in arms against the French more than a decade ago, or the result...
...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...