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...southwest of Saigon. When Rees jumped from his helicopter on landing, a volley of B40 rockets and machine-gun fire suddenly ripped into one of the team's three craft, setting it afire. Rees raised his hands in surrender, but he was promptly shot dead by the Viet Cong...
...delegate, Colonel William Tombaught, flung Rees' bloodstained jacket onto the conference table at the next JMC meeting. "The treachery of your act lays bare your utter disregard for human life," he told the Communist delegates and then stormed out of the meeting. A day later, the Viet Cong coolly disclaimed responsibility for Rees' death, insisting that they had never agreed to his search mission...
...violations are continuing at the rate of as many as 150 a day. The Saigon command charges that 11,724 South Vietnamese soldiers and 1,991 civilians have been killed since the ceasefire, but claims that South Vietnamese forces have responded by killing 41,825 North Vietnamese and Viet Cong troops...
...political provisions of the agreement have not been carried out. The essential problem is that the Saigon government does not recognize what the agreement accepted in principle: that two distinct political entities exist in South Viet Nam. As a result, the delineation of territory-into Saigon-controlled and Viet Cong-controlled areas-has never taken place...
...South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu agreed to a political process that would lead to the establishment of a National Council of National Reconciliation and Concord, as called for by the agreement, and pave the way for national elections in which the Viet Cong could participate...