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...question over to the United Nations rumbled on, with Majority Leader Mike Mansfield and Minority Leader Everett Dirksen both supporting such a move. The Foreign Relations Committee also heard U.N. Ambassador Arthur Goldberg clarify for the first time in public the Administration's willingness to allow the Viet Cong to participate in Security Council peace talks...
While the U.N. to date has shown no interest in tackling the Viet Nam dilemma, Goldberg said also that if the Geneva Conference is reconvened, the U.S. will not argue with the conference cochairmen, Russia and Britain, about invitations or agenda. Thus, the Viet Cong could participate in Geneva talks with no American objection-a significant softening of the U.S. position to date...
...flat, jarring crack of explosions rang loud and near. "Gee," said a woman, "I hope that's a salute." Hubert Humphrey peered into the rainswept gloom outside Saigon's Independence Palace and said: "I hope so, too." The three salvos were in fact salutations from the Viet Cong, whose mortarmen thus welcomed the U.S. Vice President to Viet Nam and attempted to turn last week's inaugural reception for President Nguyen Van Thieu and Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky into a wake. Fired from the roof of a shack in downtown Sai gon, the shells...
...relations, which have been almost nonexistent. Sihanouk broke off relations with the U.S. in 1965, as a protest against the bombing of a Cambodian village by South Vietnamese planes. The U.S., for its part, has repeatedly complained about Cambodia's complaisant provision of safe refuge for the Viet Cong...
...ringed by concertina wire and crowned by an improbable, rickety observation tower. Down the airstrip from the headquarters (see map) was an only slightly more substantial, diamond-shaped Special Forces camp, its walls made of logs and earthworks like something out of the old American West. To the Viet Cong's main-force 272nd and 273rd Regiments, assigned the task of spoiling South Viet Nam's inaugural week with a major victory, Loc Ninh must have seemed an ideal target: a district headquarters defended by underforce irregulars and a handful of Americans, close both to the Viet Cong...