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What has passed for peace in South Viet Nam since the cease-fire was signed 18 months ago would be called war almost anywhere else. Last week in the old "iron triangle," South Vietnamese units finally, after an agonizing battle, chased North Vietnamese and Viet Cong regulars from one of three outposts they had recently captured near Ben Cat, a strategically important district town 25 miles north of Saigon. The next day the Communists launched a strong counterattack, which ended in failure. In spite of repeated air strikes by South Vietnamese Skyraiders, however, the two neighboring posts remained...
...reconstructed and as yet un published directive emphasizes a longterm, cautious struggle to take over all of Viet Nam. Communist forces will try to force Saigon to implement the Paris accords ("a great victory") so that the North Vietnamese army and Viet Cong guerrillas can nip off territory bit by bit. Says the document: "We will have to attack point by point, grasping partial victories and advancing to ward final victory...
Next day Kissinger made another major concession: Viet Cong participation in a mixed tripartite commission to oversee new elections after a ceasefire. The Soviets were suddenly impressed with the U.S. determination to make peace. Brezhnev agreed to send Soviet President Nikolai Podgorny to Hanoi to urge resumption of the secret Paris talks. An elated Kissinger told his aides that "the Russians are going to help...
...year intimacy between French Philosophers Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre drew fire last week-from South Viet Nam. Beauvoir and Sartre, along with a group of fellow French intellectuals, appealed to the next French government to recognize the Viet Cong's Provisional Revolutionary Government and further to recognize the exiled Prince Sihanouk as the rightful ruler of neighboring Cambodia...
Author Rubin, who worked with Montagnards as a Special Forces sergeant from 1962 to 1964, uses this simple parable to stunning effect. Through it, the catastrophe that falls upon Buon Yun assumes the inevitable rhythm of high drama. Like the eagle and the tiger, the Americans and Viet Cong tell themselves-and for the most part are convinced-that all they are trying to do is protect the village. The few who sense disaster waiting behind a tangle of motives are powerless to reverse the story line of the Montagnard legend...