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...What has Mr. Kissinger achieved so far? A temporary truce in Viet Nam−by giving legality to over 200,000 rebel Viet Cong troops−that nobody of sound mind would have agreed...
...were waiting to see whether Kissinger would take as energetic a role in settling the Arab-Israeli impasse as he did in ending the Viet Nam War. Some wondered whether, in the Kissinger view, Palestinians should play as vital a part in Middle East peace talks as the Viet Cong did at the conference table in Paris...
...TIMES and The Post are not perfect. They sometimes succumb to the same shoddiness that plagues the rest of the newspaper world, and some of their coverage is just as inaccurate. The Times, for example, insists to this day upon calling the Vietnamese National Liberation Front the "Viet Cong," even though the term is considered highly insulting in Vietnam. A newspaper striving honestly for objectivity would report the news objectively and evenly, leaving its insults for the editorial page...
...wants to strengthen its cadre network in the South and to rebuild the bomb-shattered economy in the North. Nonetheless, it gives every indication that it is prepared to start fighting again if it fails to win the South politically. In contrast to eight years ago, when the Viet Cong were poorly armed and waging primarily a guerrilla war, the Communists are now armed with heavy weapons. Intelligence sources estimate they have 400 tanks within or near the borders of the South, as well as many artillery pieces, including the 17-mile-range 130-mm. cannon...
...former paratrooper in Viet Nam, described a fantastic plot that he says he watched develop while serving as Arkansas-Oklahoma coordinator for the antiwar vets. He outlined the scheme that he says Veteran Leader Scott Camil called "Phoenix II" (named after a CIA-sponsored project to eliminate Viet Cong cadres in Viet Nam). Lemmer told the jury that early in 1972, Camil said he was conducting training operations for political assassination squads on an isolated Florida farm with facilities for rifle, pistol and mortar practice. Lemmer, who spent approximately two years as an FBI informer, testified that the plotting veterans...