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North Viet Nam's reply came through a most unorthodox channel: a Tass dispatch from Hanoi saying that Washington's reluctance to accept Pnompenh "cannot but cause wonder, because the U.S. has repeatedly expressed willingness to send its representatives to any point on the globe." Tass added that the North Vietnamese would nonetheless be willing to consider Warsaw as an alternative. Hours later, Hanoi confirmed its choice of the Polish capital in a formal note delivered to U.S. Ambassador William Sullivan in Vientiane, where there have been as many as nine exchanges between American and North Vietnamese diplomats...
...headed by Army Lieut. General William B. Rosson, 49. Rosson will have battle command of all actions in the two provinces, but will report to Marine Lieut. General Robert E. Cushman Jr., the Marines' commander in Viet Nam. The Marines had been riled by Westy's dispatch of Army General Creighton W. Abrams Jr. last month to run things in I Corps-since his four stars would have put him over the Marines. Westmoreland hopes that his compromise will satisfy everyone...
...some Teamsters fared too badly while they lasted. A state senate investigating committee discovered that seven Teamsters had grossed about $300,000 during the eight weeks they operated a distributing company to circulate the Daily Express. It was also confirmed that other Teamsters had made arrangements to publish the Dispatch before the strike had begun, a situation that Michigan Senator Robert Griffin described as "nothing less than labor racketeering...
...tragedy is," says Murray Fromson, CBS's Bangkok bureau chief, "that we get the glory, but cameramen have made the good correspondents." Belatedly aware of that fact, CBS headquarters sent a dispatch directing that reporters give plugs to the helmetless heroes who have shot the film. If the footage is especially good, the New York producers on all three networks "super" subtitles on the screen crediting the cameramen and sound...
...only news coverage the event received was a three-paragraph dispatch by the Associated Press, based on the afternoon press conference...