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...Nixon elected President. Names Henry Cabot Lodge as chief Paris negotiator in January. South Viet Nam and Viet Cong join talks...
Special Forces Captain Roger H.C. Donlon, a tall, sandy-haired soldier who led a heroic defense against Viet Cong attackers in 1963, was the first Congressional Medal of Honor winner in Viet Nam. Donlon himself was wounded four times in the firefight, but he refused medical aid until his men were treated. Donlon, 38, today is a major serving in Thailand...
...flag will go up over Saigon. Most experts now believe that the chances of a Communist takeover within the next five years are actually quite slim. Historically, strong central governments have been disliked in the South, and most of the Southerners are either anti-Communist or neutral. The Viet Cong and the North Vietnamese army now control between one-third and one-half of the land but only an estimated 10% of the population, all in thinly settled rural areas. The crowded cities are heavily infiltrated by Viet Cong cadres, but they are all under non-Communist control...
...five years is even less likely than a Communist takeover. It will take many years before the divisions in Viet Nam?caused by history, the blood debts of the war, internal political disputes and regional differences?can be surmounted. There are also some rivalries between Hanoi and the Viet Cong, and these splits have been aggravated since the death of Ho Chi Minh. The Communists no longer have a single father figure to guide and inspire them...
...most vividly iconoclastic new words generally come from the G.I.s, and so, in Viet Nam, the grunts spoke of slants and slopes, of Charley (Viet Cong) and Yards (Montagnard tribesmen) and White Mice (white-uniformed local police). Where they were was "the boonies of Nam"; everything else was "the world." Officials spoke windily of "winning hearts and minds," but the G.I.s shortened that to WHAM. To the airmen, the jungle was Indian Country, where you might end up either in the Hanoi Hilton (prison camp) or Buying the Farm (dead...