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Last week he declared that the shortest road to settlement might lie within South Viet Nam itself-and that the two parties to travel it first should not be Washington and Hanoi but the Saigon government and the rebel Viet Cong. The trouble was that the South Vietnamese President and his colleagues -not to mention the Viet Cong-seemed reluctant to make the trip...
Northerners and the pliable, easygoing Southerners. There are signs that the Viet Cong have become resentful that North Viet Nam took over direction of the war, and they do not relish being the horses for Hanoi's knights. The essential difference is that Hanoi still hopes to outlast the U.S. on the battlefield, but the Viet Cong seem somewhat more amenable to compromise and coalition. A most realistic prospect would be for Washington to encourage appeals to the regional patriotism of the Viet Cong, aiming for them to negotiate a separate peace...
...embassy in Saigon now believes that the best way out of the war would be through direct negotiations between the South Vietnamese government and the Viet Cong. Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker has been quietly promoting the idea, but President Thieu resists,1 arguing that his own generals would get up in arms against him if he were to dare recognize the Viet Cong. Thieu last week was drafting a letter to Ho, proposing to meet him face to face. In the unlikely event that Ho accepts, Thieu will ask the U.S. to stop bombing for seven days and to continue...
Fluttering north from Saigon in a privately chartered helicopter to inspect a Viet Nam resettlement camp, Illinois G.O.P. Senator Charles Percy, 48, decided on impulse to take a look at Dak Son, the Montagnard village recently destroyed by the Viet Cong in the war's worst atrocity. The Senator and a party of four hopped to the ground in Dak Son, leaving Loraine Percy in the chopper, and were met by a welcoming barrage of mortar and small-arms fire from surrounding V.C.s. "I can assure you I have never gotten closer to the ground," said Percy...
...emotional struggle has also developed between leftist and conservative students, both demanding different kinds of reforms but neither willing to compromise or join forces. In Berlin, demonstrating Free University students have clashed violently with police five times. At rallies, "Red Rudi" Dutschke reads telegrams of support from the Viet Cong. Rectors at Hamburg and Munich have been shouted down by students. "Our universities are dead," concedes one government education official. "We must start from zero...