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...course, is no more anxious than Thieu and Ky to accept a coalition that would swallow non-Communist elements. Speaking on CBS-TV's Face the Nation last week, William Bundy warned that an "imposed coalition" giving the Viet Cong key Cabinet posts "would be likely to follow the East European pattern of the simple takeover." He predicted that even with the V.C.'s relatively small popular following?he placed it at 15% to 25%?such a takeover would be almost inevitable. In many rural areas, the guerrilla is treated with great deference?or fear?and many peasants refer...
...Viet Minh major, he was wounded and captured by the French, who even then were impressed. Born July 9, 1917, in a Mekong Delta town 150 miles from Saigon, Bo's Southern mandarin background makes him an appropriate emissary not only for Hanoi but also for the Viet Cong...
From the first, his duties in Paris have included propagandizing Europeans, dissident Americans and South Vietnamese residing in France. His latest coup was to trot out a herd of Southern students to march in last week's May Day parade under a Viet Cong flag...
Salute to the Tube. To learn how to avoid Viet Cong booby traps and needle-pointed poisoned bamboo punji stakes, infantrymen will be shown eight hours of video tapes on Viet Nam. In a lesson on military courtesv, recruits watch a televised salute and then salute the screen while they are checked by their own sergeant. Altogether, the Army has assembled more than 2,000 TV tapes on such wide-ranging subjects as how to bandage wounds, drive correctly and repair radios. Unlike old training films, which cost three times the $500 budgeted to crank out a minute of televised...
Whatever may happen in Paris, peace seemed a distant prospect last week on the battlefields of Viet Nam, where the war rose to a fighting pitch of intensity unequaled since the Tet offensive. The Viet Cong shelled Saigon and a dozen other cities and attempted ground attacks in some cases, but their assault, far from being a second round on the scale of Tet, amounted to little more than coordinated harassment. Elsewhere, U.S. and South Vietnamese forces scored sizeable victories in heavy fighting around Saigon, in the Delta and, particularly, in northernmost I Corps, where the bloodiest battles...