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NOTHING more vividly illustrated the end of the war for the U.S. than the arrival in Saigon last week of Lieut. General Tran Van Tra, chief representative of the Viet Cong on the Joint Military Commission-aboard an American helicopter. Tra, 55, is deputy commander of the Communists in South Viet Nam and the man who directed the 1968 Tet offensive...
...Ninh, near the Cambodian border, a town that his troops had captured last spring. Seven UH-1 helicopters, painted with white stripes to signify that they were in the commission's employ, picked up Tra and 29 of his officers, still wearing their jungle-green uniforms; one Viet Cong arrived in Saigon carrying his automatic weapon...
...fragile peace began to converge on Saigon. U.S. officials anxiously awaited the arrival of the Communist delegations to the supervisory four-party joint military commission. The members of the North Vietnamese delegation were expected to arrive in Saigon by a flight from Hanoi via Vientiane. The Viet Cong promised a more bizarre entrance. U.S. officials awaited a signal to dispatch a helicopter to pick up the V.C. delegation chief (a general, most likely), who would be waiting either in the U Minh forest, an old Communist stronghold in the southern tip of the country, or in the area west...
...explosions" to attack government installations. Under tough new decrees, anyone passing out Communist flags or leaflets will be arrested; Communist agitators will be shot on sight. So will anyone who tries to urge refugees to leave their camps and return to their homes in areas under Viet Cong control...
...major cities. The Communists claim to control more than 2,500,000 people, or about 14% of South Viet Nam's total population of 17,500,000; in reality the number is probably closer to 500,000. Some intelligence officials believe that Hanoi and the Viet Cong will shift immediately after the cease-fire to widespread but small-scale guerrilla tactics. More likely the Communists will keep guerrilla activity to a minimum until the U.S. withdrawal is completed...