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...your deliberations of candidates for the TIME Man of the Year, do not forget the Viet Cong. For years they have fought for their independence. In 1972 they...
...showdown negotiations between the U.S. and the North Vietnamese resumed last week, TIME Chief of Correspondents Murray Gart and European Correspondent William Rademaekers were ushered into the suburban Paris headquarters of Mme. Nguyen Thi Binh, the intense, austerely handsome head of the Viet Cong delegation to the peace talks and Foreign Minister of the Provisional Revolutionary Government. Speaking slowly and deliberately, Madame Binh, 45, set out her authoritative views of the approaching peace settlement in a rare and lengthy 90-minute interview. Among her most interesting comments...
...your article on De Mau Mau [Oct. 30]: of course their reasons are not a rationale for murder. However, it makes a hell of a lot more sense for a black in that position to murder a wealthy white than it does for him to murder a Viet Cong or North Vietnamese soldier...
...Communists apparently never expect to hold the towns for long. One of their objectives is to keep Saigon's forces off balance and tied down while other North Vietnamese and Viet Cong units increase the pressure on Saigon itself and other key areas. A second aim is to undermine the villagers' confidence in their government and Vietnamization. But the tactics will also pay spot dividends on any given day that a ceasefire is declared, since the Washington-Hanoi agreement says that whoever holds a piece of land on the day the cease-fire commences gets to keep...
...been having a ball with the Watergate caper. Last week he fantasied a post-cease-fire briefing-as conducted by Washington's C.R.P. (Committee for the Re-Election of the President)-for Saigon politicos on how to win a Viet Nam reunification election: set up committees like "Viet Cong for Thieu," force special interests to contribute $10 million, protect donors' identity by routing contributions through Mexican banks, and send the money back to Saigon to buy "bugging equipment, miniature cameras, disappearing ink, forged letterheads-all the usual paraphernalia that anyone needs for a free and open election...