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...North Vietnamese wanted to set deadlines; Oct. 31 was the final date after two postponements. Kissinger did not flatly reject the idea, and over the course of the next few days Nixon sent Hanoi's Premier Pham Van Dong two messages saying that the U.S. would make every effort to conclude the negotiations by that date. But Kissinger insisted repeatedly that the U.S. could not sign unless all parties concerned were agreed. Even so the Administration was eager to move ahead as fast and as far as possible. Though the Oct. 31 deadline meant compressing a three-week process into...
...visit to Seoul last week, TIME'S Tokyo Bureau Chief Herman Nickel found an Orwellian atmosphere. "When you enter the door to the biggest newspaper, Dong-a Ilbo," he cabled, "you have to watch out that you don't get scraped in the face by the bayonets that two grim-looking paratroopers hold crossed on their M16s. For obvious reasons, it was hard to get much comment from Koreans. But passers-by appeared visibly startled when they saw the big American-made M48 tank menacingly pointing its gun from the entrance of the National Assembly. A soldier waved...
This year, the six-man selection committee also awarded associate fellowships to three foreign correspondents they are: Jim-Hyun Kim of Dong A libo, Seoul, Korea: Jove U. Macaspac Jr. of The Manila Chronicle. The Philippines; and Alfred F. Riev of Die Burger, Caps Town, South Africa...
GENERAL GIAP may be running the current North Vietnamese offensive in South Viet Nam, but he is by no means his own master in Hanoi. The most powerful figure in the North Vietnamese hierarchy is Le Duan, the shrewd, remote first secretary of Hanoi's ruling Lao Dong (Workers) Party and ranking member of its Politburo. A nervous and intense man who grew up in what is now South Viet Nam, Le Duan is generally regarded as the chief architect of Hanoi's relentless crusade to take over the South. His pre-eminence is underscored by the fact...
Future Plans. Pham Van Dong, the Premier, who has stayed on in Hanoi, told a journalist: "Of course they can blow all of this up [meaning his offices]. And then what? That's not what's going to change the course of history." Then he talks about the future: plans for travel abroad to establish ties for cooperation with all those who showed understanding for [North] Viet Nam during these terrible, decisive hours. In ministry files, partly evacuated to caves on high plateaus, are plans for the Viet Nam of tomorrow, "reunited by the Vietnamese alone," as Pham...