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...presence in Saigon was necessary to help untangle the intricate web of arrangements on which the truce depends. The Joint Military Commission needed all four members-from the U.S., North Viet Nam, South Viet Nam and the Viet Cong-before it could begin to work out procedures, let alone stop truce violations by either side. The J.M.C. had to be operating before the International Commission of Control and Supervision-otherwise known as the CHIP commission, after its members. Canada, Hungary, Indonesia and Poland-could get down to business...
Besides all that, President Nguyen Van Thieu's government is due to start bilateral talks with the Viet Cong (more properly, the Provisional Revolutionary Government) in Paris this week. The goal: to create a National Council of National Reconciliation and Concord, which is supposed to supervise free elections. Then there is a 13-member international guarantee conference, due to convene...
...Diplomatic Editor Jerrold Schecter, Sihanouk said: "I wish I were wrong for the sake of the Vietnamese people, but I believe South Viet Nam will eventually be divided in two-that is, one South Viet Nam satellite of the U.S., and another South Viet Nam run by the Viet Cong-for a while at least. One day a violent confrontation between the two incompatible South Viet Nams will become inevitable...One of the two present antagonistic movements will be completely overpowered by the other...
While both sides violated the ceasefire on a broad scale, Saigon officials reported that North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces were trying to seize 220 rural population centers and were repulsed or chased out in 192 cases. The Communists provided no such statistics but claimed that they were adhering "scrupulously" to the ceasefire...
...threatened by new attacks from both sides, the struggle turned into a flag-waving contest. In many areas, the yellow-and-red-striped banner of the Republic of South Viet Nam was flying within a hundred yards of the red-blue-and-yellow-starred flag of the Viet Cong. The flags often in fact became targets for the competing troops, and a villager's choice of which flag to fly was sometimes fatal...