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...Pacific war. If the comparison was vastly exaggerated, it did express Saigon's fear that the Nixon Administration might be willing to make concessions in Paris that would destroy the Thieu regime. "Our government obviously wants to know the intentions of the United States," said Pham Dang Lam, Saigon's chief negotiator in Paris, who then pointedly recalled Nixon's words that "a great nation cannot renege on its pledges...
Assassin Types. Who are the skyjackers? Most are either criminals on the lam or men who are emotionally disturbed in one way or another. Dr. Peter Siegel, the FAA's air surgeon, has made a study of the scant available data and formulated what he calls the "skyjackers' syndrome": the skyjacker believes that he can prove himself a decisive, effective human being by taking control of a plane, its crew and passengers, and commanding it to go to Cuba...
...came from the U.S. In a brief statement, Lodge suggested the immediate re-establishment of the Demilitarized Zone as an inviolate buffer zone between the two Viet Nams. He also urged efforts toward troop withdrawal by both sides. Saigon's chief delegate, Ambassador Pham Dang Lam, echoed the American proposals but could not resist a little propaganda on the side. "You'll never take the South by force," he warned the Communists. Shortly thereafter, the 6½-hour conference ended with an agreement to reconvene this week...
Pham Dang Lam, Saigon's observer at the talks up to now and a former Foreign Minister (1964-65), will head the official group. The other members include: Nguyen Xuan Phong, like Lam a Southerner and former Minister With out Portfolio under Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky when Ky was Premier in 1966; Mrs. Nguyen Thi Vui, niece of a Trotskyite killed by other Communists in 1946 and a successful law yer with a long record of working for the poor; Vuong Van Bac, a Northerner, a lawyer and a Ky man; and Nguyen Ngoc Huy, a professor...
...thought of ceasefire. They would like more time to consolidate Saigon's hold on the countryside, and they are convinced that Hanoi will not stick to its de-escalation understanding with the U.S. Last week the South Vietnamese commander of I Corps, Lieut. General Hoang Xuan Lam, charged that the North Vietnamese were moving through the DMZ in company-sized units. Despite 21 significant confirmed violations of the buffer zone, U.S. officers saw no pattern of abuse there and could locate no major military threat. At the same time, Saigon claimed that, despite the understanding that cities should...