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...heavy artillery and rocket barrage apparently forced the defenders to flee, allowing the Communists to roll easily over the sprawling city. They captured thousands of Saigon's troops and an enormous amount of U.S.-provided equipment, including warplanes, tanks and artillery. At week's end Lam Dong, a sparsely populated tea-growing province 85 miles northeast of Saigon, also fell. There seemed little doubt that the Communists would soon engulf practically all of Military Region II, the twelve provinces in the middle of the country...
Partly the secrecy, by the way, of the earlier period helped Kissinger make that moronic, murderous judgment. The Seaborn mission in 1964 used the same words to the same person, Pham Van Dong in the summer of 1964, namely: The U.S. will blow you to pieces if you don't stop what you're doing in South Vietnam and so forth, and call off the war. And Pham Van Dong said lots of things in reply but to the effect of, We expect you to bomb, we carried out this war eight years without Hanoi or Haiphong against the French...
...White House on Thursday evening, an exuberant crowd of about 3,000 collected along Pennsylvania Avenue and in Lafayette Square. Some waved sparklers, some carried vindictive placards (EXECUTIVE DELETED, IMPEACH THE SYSTEM), and one planted on the White House fence a slightly spaced-out message of cheer: DING DONG, THE WITCH is DEAD. There were also some tearful admirers (GOD LOVES NIXON) who prayed for their fallen leader...
...country's election laws in the 1967 and 1971 campaigns. The trial has infuriated the Japanese-still smarting from the kidnaping-who had been promised that Kim would be free to leave South Korea to become a research fellow at Harvard. Park's Foreign Minister, Kim Dong Jo, has coolly informed the Japanese that the trial is entirely "an internal affair" and the proceedings may take as long as three months...
...following Radcliffe fellowships were awarded for 1974-75. Winners of the American Briggs fellowships are Camille L. Bedrosian '74 of South House and Malvern, Pa.; Margaret A. Dong '74 of North House and Phoenix, Ariz.; Phyllis Ann James '74 of Currier House and Washington, D.C.; and Paula Pinkston '74 of Currier House and Memphis, Tenn...