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...oddly muted ceremonies, there were only a few sedate waves at the clicking cameras, no speeches, no spoken exchanges of any kind between the dignitaries. None of the key figures of the settlement-neither President Nixon nor Henry Kissinger, neither Hanoi's Premier Pham Van Dong nor Saigon's President Nguyen Van Thieu-was even present. The three Vietnamese parties were represented by their little-known Foreign Ministers, and the U.S. by its almost forgotten Secretary of State, William Rogers, who ended up signing his name on various sheets of paper 72 times with a battery...
...same loudspeakers that had honked warnings of U.S. air attacks less than a month before. In contrast to Thieu, North Viet Nam's leaders seemed ready-even eager-to admit that something had changed with the Paris agreement. At a presidential-palace reception, North Vietnamese Premier Pham Van Dong, 64, had a smiling, two-word reply to a foreign diplomat who offered his congratulations: "At last...
Only then it was the "Red Berets," France's paratroopers, and the white-hatted Foreign Legionnaires who were fighting the Viet Minh. In those days a town called Dong Dang, on the China border, was of particular interest to the French. It was a central supply point for the Viet Minh...
...side is now prepared to make remains cloaked in the secrecy of the exchanges between the White House and Hanoi that led to the agreement to go back to the table-exchanges that conceivably may have been by cable directly between the President and North Vietnamese Premier Pham Van Dong, as they were in October. Around the White House there is a heady sense of having gambled and won. Says one aide: "The North Vietnamese underestimated what Richard Nixon would do. He had given them warning, and once it became clear that they were diddling us, he ordered the bombing...
...shoots and cooked them. There was no milk or sugar." Illness claimed 20% of the unit. Many of the wounded died en route to a field hospital, a seven-or eight-day stretcher trip. Surrounded, out of food and low on ammunition after hard fighting near Khong Sédong, Dai and some of his comrades surrendered...