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...Romney's own admission, his plan hung precariously from three essentials that have eluded peacemakers: the great powers must agree to impose peace, the Viet Cong must be disarmed and permitted to enter South Viet Nam's political life, and there must be effective international policing...
Clouded Chances. The fund was only one issue on which Percy has been collecting bad notices. Last month when he took his wife Loraine into Dak Son during a five-day tour of South Viet Nam, the Viet Cong opened fire with mortars. The incident might have been all to Percy's good as publicity, but the popular reaction was: "Any man who would take his wife into a situation like that is plain stupid." Percy protests that his wife invariably travels abroad with him and produces politically useful movies of his adventures. Besides, says he, "it never entered...
...southbound NVA infantryman, customarily headed for an organized North Vietnamese unit but sometimes also for duty as a replacement in decimated Viet Cong ranks, is drilled night and day in the patriotic mission he has been given. "My heart is filled with joy and with an intense love for our kinsmen," one NVA wrote in his diary upon crossing the DMZ into South Viet Nam. The aim of such saturation indoctrination is to try to ensure that NVA recruits are "politically reliable...
...Viet Cong ideologists rank Binh Van (subverting enemy troops) as one prong of a triple-lined war effort, accompanied by political and military action. "Direct propaganda at U.S. troops, especially draftees and colored soldiers," ordered a captured Viet Cong directive. But while Negroes are promised special treatment if they defect, other Viet Cong slander them, terrorizing villagers with tales of cannibalism by Negroes...
...have Negroes proved to be a weak link that the Viet Cong could hope to break. "The violence back home the V.C. write about is true," says Negro PFC Gregory Putnam, 20, a Detroiter from an East Side storm center of last summer's rioting. "But it has nothing to do with the war." None has ventured to seek Viet Cong help. The V.C. have not, in fact, won over a single American defector, while 27,178 Viet Cong and North Vietnamese defected last year. G.I.s flatly mistrust Viet Cong promises. "I've seen enough of their brutality...