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...Your Essay raises some serious questions about a political compromise with the Viet Cong. You suggest a coalition government and recognition of the V.C. as a political party, indicating that we might be able to "use" the V.C. to stabilize South Viet Nam and to transform the military struggle into a political one. The greatest mistake of the past in Viet Nam has been to underestimate the Communists, whether Viet Minh or Viet Cong. They are widespread and militarily strong -why should we think they would lay down their arms to become the "loyal opposition" in a republican government...
...know." Turning to the other side of the aisle, Romney found a Marine whose right leg had been amputated. "Do you have a girl friend?" he asked. The Marine said flatly: "Yes." Then Romney started to greet some Vietnamese patients, but when told they were captured Viet Cong, he turned away...
...other Communist nations if U.S. or South Vietnamese forces entered Cambodia. But, in a surprising turnabout, he later told a reporter for the Washington Post that his army would not necessarily attempt to stop U.S. troops from entering Cambodia in hot pursuit. Provided, he added, that 1) Viet Cong or North Vietnamese troops had entered Cambodia illegally, a move that he now concedes they have made in the past, while continuing to insist they are not there now; 2) the U.S. launches no serious raids, bombings or actions in populated frontier areas but confines itself to "uninhabited outlying regions difficult...
...television scene flickered into millions of American homes in all its grim and ghastly detail. There, before CBS news cameras set up at a 1st Infantry Division base 50 miles north of Saigon, were three dead Viet Cong whose ears had been cut off by souvenir-hunting G.I.s. "You must understand," said CBS Newsman Don Webster, reporting from the scene, "the emotional state of some of these men, and their anger and sorrow at the loss of their buddies. A few days from now, these soldiers will probably be as aghast as anyone at what they've done...
...monologue: "I think I lost my youth ... a man of 40 stole it ... I'll fall in love with an American from Houston or Memphis . . . have children named John or Elizabeth . . ." After such a drizzly forecast, it is no wonder that when Montand is released by the Viet Cong, he heads straight for home and wife...