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...committee of 21, including Martin Luther King, Dr. Benjamin Spock, Joan Baez and other antiwar militants, that was set up to give the men legal aid for any defense. He also claimed that the release of the men was a result of the meeting of American leftists and Viet Cong representatives in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, last September. The sergeants' onetime tutor, however, had another version: the Viet Cong had planned to release the men as early as last December, he said, but had not done so because the prisoners "weren't ready...
Died. Gustav C. Hertz, 49, high ranking U.S. AID official kidnaped by the Viet Cong in Saigon in February 1965; reportedly of malaria; somewhere in Viet Nam. For almost three years his family, friends and the U.S. Government explored every channel, diplomatic and private, seeking his release. Last week his wife received a letter from Cambodia's Prince Sihanouk stating that her husband had died in captivity on Sept. 24. Sihanouk's source: Nguyen Huu Tho, leader of the V.C.'s National Liberation Front...
...also believes that if Viet Nam had gone Communist in the early '50s, it would not have mattered much to U.S. interests. At present he favors cessation of the bombing but a continued, strong military buildup behind a barrier along the 17th parallel, to persuade the Viet Cong that they cannot win and must negotiate. Under his peace plan, the Viet Cong would be given undisputed rule of the areas they now control. The next stage calls for North and South Viet Nam to be united as one country whose neutrality would be guaranteed by international agreements...
...LAST REFLECTIONS ON A WAR by Bernard Fall (Doubleday, $4.95), is a reminder of the business he left unfinished when a hidden Viet Cong mine killed Fall at 40 last February near the Demilitarized Zone. Beginning in 1952, Fall had dedicated 15 years to single-minded study of Viet Nam's bloody travail, had become a world authority on the baffling complexities of Communist-style guerrilla warfare. This posthumous collection of his last writings carries forward but adds little to arguments that he expounded tirelessly in Viet Nam during frequent trips into battle. He stresses...
...VIETNAM by Mary McCarthy (Harcourt, Brace & World, $5.95), is seen darkly through a bile-colored glass. The Viet Cong somehow do not make the scene; the G.I. is an unmitigated heavy. Novelist McCarthy confesses at the outset that her visit to the war last February for the New York Review of Books was to seek what was damaging to America. Written in corrosive prose, her book is a searing catalogue of squalor: rusting heaps of empty cans marking the progress of American divisions across the countryside, unwashed refugees and naive do-gooding Americans burbling enthusiastically of winning Vietnamese hearts...