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...news that the Viet Cong had sought last September to send representatives to the United Nations. The U.S. said that it would not object to such a visit as long as the guerrillas were really interested in conducting "official business." But, added the State Department, "we do oppose their coming merely to mount a propaganda campaign." The V.C. thereupon abandoned their effort, indicating that they very well might have been after headlines. But the intriguing notion also remains that they might have been after something more...
That possibility was underscored in a notebook that was prepared by a Viet Cong political leader and captured recently by U.S. troops. In it, the guerrilla conceded that the V.C. could not deal , the U.S. and its allies "a lethal blow" and were thinking of turning toward a coalition government as a means of achieving what they could no longer hope to win on the battlefield. The Communists of late have been savagely mauled in battles from Dak To to the Delta...
...streets of Tel Aviv. Think of suggesting to an SDS meeting that a petition be circulated to award Walt W. Rostow an honorary (not electric) chair from Harvard. Then speculate for a minute, about telling your friends in Adams House what it is like to machinegun Viet Cong from a helicopter over the Mekong...
...beginning he had thought of the war as a necessary evil to protect a parliamentary democracy from the Communists; he had seen American activity in Vietnam as a kind of over-flow of Theodore Roosevelt energy. But then he started asking himself how the Viet Cong managed to survive if they didn't have a popular base in South Vietnam. He questioned the U.S. military assumption that only the South Vietnamese Army was mature enough to govern south Vietnam. "Being a patriotic American I felt that people should have the right to determine their own destiny and that in fact...
...next attack came a night later at Bu Dop, a U.S. Special Forces camp 21 miles north of Bo Due. Viet Cong intelligence was so precise that one of the first rockets dropped directly on top of an important U.S. bunker, killing the three American occupants. With suicidal intensity reminiscent of the Chinese in Korea, wave after wave of Viet Cong rolled over each other toward the camp. This time a hail of fire from a battalion of U.S. defenders and the miniguns of circling American gunships stopped the assault short of the fort's outer fences. Chalk...