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...bombing, government forces remain optimistic that the U.S. will save them. Commander in Chief Sosthene Fernandez pledges: "We will continue the fight until the North Vietnamese Communists leave our territory." Asked what will happen after the U.S. bombing is stopped, he says: "If the North Vietnamese and the Viet Cong are still here, I will ask the U.S. to continue the air support." How is the war going? "It gets worse and worse," a colonel replies. "Some units are not fighting. It's not just the soldiers; it's the officers too." He still believes in the Americans...
...Davis makes speeches for the 15-year-old Perfect Master. The New York Yankees look as though they will win the pennant for the first time since the halcyon days of Lyndon Johnson. And the New York Mets--the team of the undaunted losers, of the underdog, the Viet Cong of organized baseball--are in last place, with half their players injured...
...have spent more than 45 hours parleying in Paris during the past month, trying to salvage last January's Indochina cease-fire agreement. The product of their labors did not quite seem commensurate with the effort. Last week they produced a "communiqué" that even the Viet Cong's Provisional Revolutionary Government (P.R.G.) and the usually recalcitrant government of South Viet Nam could affix their names to at a stiff ceremony inside Paris' International Conference Center...
Across the river from the dead city, the Viet Cong recently erected a huge green flagpole; their banner flutters merrily as ARVN and NVA loudspeakers hurl epithets at each other...
Saigon also opposes any deal by Kissinger that would place a third, "uncommitted" party on the National Council for Reconciliation and Concord. Thieu insists that the council comprise only his government supporters and those of the Viet Cong's Provisional Revolutionary Government (P.R.G...