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This time the feeler was extended by a pair of professors from an Italian university-one of them was Giorgio La Pira, onetime mayor of Florence-who purportedly had interviewed Ho and his Premier, Pham Van Dong, early in November. Through U.N. General Assembly President Amintore Fanfani, the would-be diplomatists reported breathlessly that Hanoi was now "prepared to initiate negotiations without first requiring actual withdrawal of American troops." In an echo of Lyndon Johnson, Ho was even quoted as saying: "I am prepared to go anywhere, to meet anyone...
...seven-mile defense belt long claimed by the police to be impenetrable by the enemy. In one street battle last week, a police patrol traded fire with a Viet Cong squad for 20 minutes before the guerrillas melted into side streets. At the suburban police station of Tan Quy Dong, 30 Viet Cong assaulted the chief and three recruits on duty, who escaped, wounded, only by jumping out of windows into the nearby river. The attackers then made off with the station's small armory...
...filing background color, though, Cameron is less a reporter than a conduit for North Vietnamese propaganda. He all but equates Hanoi, which has not been touched by bombs, with wartime London, which was hit heavily. He quotes officials, such as North Viet Nam's Premier Pham Van Dong, at interminable length, without any appraisal of what they are saying. When he passes the Russian SAM missile sites in the countryside, he loses his reportorial curiosity and does not question his hosts about them. "I talked rapidly of other things to save embarrassment...
...battalion of undertrained rookies, Johnson-still a lieutenant colonel after eight years-was assigned to the Pusan perimeter, where he moved into position as a reserve unit. The next day the Communists overran the front lines. Johnson's battalion fought like veterans-and held. Later, near Tabu-dong, Johnson himself led a counterattack to regain a key sector, earning the nation's second highest award, the Distinguished Service Cross, for "extraordinary heroism in action." As Lieut. Colonel George Allen of Fairfax, Va., then one of his platoon leaders, recalls the battle: "The world was coming apart. Our company...
...Dong was one of five Vietnamese students who addressed the Teach Out which was sponsored by the United Ministry and the Harvard-Radcliffe Liberal Union on behalf of a coalition of groups interested in the Vietnamese war. About 100 people attended. None of the students disagreed with government policy regarding the war, or with the presence of U.S. troops in South Vietnam...