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Opening Wedge. Some U.S. observers believe that the Viet Cong are in the midst of a sharp internal dispute over their relations with Hanoi-not unlike the frequent spats between Saigon and Washington over who should be doing what in the war and who is really in charge. Speculation along those lines was heightened by Vice President Hubert Humphrey, who told a radio audience that there was a strong chance of a split within the Viet Cong's political arm, the National Liberation Front. "It may be that at some future date," he said, "some of the non-Communist...
Officially, the U.S. reiterated last week that it will not deal with the Viet Cong without consulting "our fighting allies," particularly the Saigon government. The State Department also rejected a coalition government on the grounds that such a regime could be the opening wedge in a Viet Cong effort to ultimately take over the South...
Nevertheless, this does not rule out the possibility that some groups within the Viet Cong may indeed be searching for a way out. It is most unlikely that the Allies will offer them membership in a coalition government, but some interim formula could be arranged that would ensure the Viet Cong continued sway over the hamlets they now control. Eventually, a solution could be worked out along the lines of the one that followed the guerrilla war in Greece, where the Communists eventually achieved limited political rights. Such a settlement is never entirely foolproof-witness the fact that the Greek...
...reason why Washington felt it necessary to issue that reassurance was the recent arrest in Saigon of an alleged Viet Cong agent who had supposedly met secretly with U.S. officials. Last week, a U.S. source in Saigon said that the man was actually a CIA agent working with non-Communist elements of the N.L.F...
...commitment, a job to do. We support the President of the United States." Paul Hall of the Seafarers Union sailed headon into J. William Fulbright. "If the Senator from Arkansas," Hall growled, "would do just 10% for the Arkansas Negro as he has said or bled for the Viet Cong, not only would Arkansas be a hell of a lot better state, but this would be a better country." Conventioneers could almost hear a drawling Washington response: "Good...