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...become cautious to a fault; yet some cautiously conjecture that the Communists' aggressiveness just might be the next step to negotiations (see ESSAY). "They're trying to pull off one last offensive and then talk peace," said one U.S. official. If that is so, however, the Viet Cong message to the United Nations last week gave no hint of it. More propaganda than proposal, it repeated the National Liberation Front's latest program, which suggests that after the Communists win the war, a coalition government be established in Saigon...
Though American forces, when available from the battlefield, will continue to attempt to dig out the Viet Cong infrastructure in the hamlets and pacify the population, this also is seen as primarily a Vietnamese chore. The ultimate goal of the war is for the allegiance of the people of South Viet Nam, says a Pentagon general, "and as long as the guns boom in the distance, the war is still on for the people. I would like to get rid of the boom, boom." In its place, he wants to hear the tweet, tweet of a train engine. "That...
...rages on in Vietnam, America may force itself to listen to Edwin Reischauer. But he fears, and perhaps it is a reasonable fear, that with the end of the war, Americans may register their disgust with swamps and rice paddies and Viet Cong by refusing to tackle the larger problems of the most heavily-populated continent. As more and more Asian nations gain a sense of national identity, a new attack of American isolationism would trigger a reaction more tragic than all the absurd Vietnams and Laoses put together
...awoke next morning to see a base camp that was probably the best the Viet Cong had to show. He shot footage of dormitories for the guerrillas, a third of whom are women these days, a school, a laundry, an underground kitchen, an infirmary. At the camp's auditorium, he watched song-and-dance acts as well as movies. For refreshment, there was a daily delivery of U.S. beer from Saigon...
When Pic accompanied the Viet Cong on their forays out of the camp, he was struck by the fact that although they carried Chinese automatic weapons, antitank guns and bazookas, in the three weeks he was with them, they never used them once. They did not attack an enemy outpost or hamlet. They did not even take a shot at the several reconnaissance planes that flew over daily. If they did, they knew there would be almost certain retaliation from U.S. bombers-and the very real chance of losing a friendly TV cameraman...