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Polite Plea. It was not a day for unity. The very ceremony at which they spoke played its own part in creating new tensions. Perhaps miffed at the absence of the Swiss President, De Gaulle had refused to allow a low-level delegation from Switzerland-which donated 2% of the tunnel's cost-to take part in its inauguration. He even denied the Swiss access to the tunnel, the only link between the ribbon-cutting ceremonies on the French side and the speeches on the Italian. Small wonder that one passionate European Federalist in the audience found the session...
...enough to make the passengers forget the war below. Viet Cong snipers occasionally pepper the planes-but have failed to bring any of them down. On a recent flight between Saigon and Danang, passengers in the high-flying Caravelle stared down in fascination at U.S. Phantom jets making low-level passes at the jungle-covered Viet Cong...
...Even the intentional five-day lull in U.S. bombing last May failed to draw a response from intransigent North Viet Nam. Britain's Commonwealth peace mission has not got very far either. Last week, after pondering Hanoi's rebuff of the mission, Harold Wilson gamely sent a low-level British official off to Hanoi on a "private" visit, apparently hoping to get Ho to change his mind. Few held out hope that Ho would...
...American Butch -and had an all-American record. A careerman like most of his U.S. comrades in Viet Nam, he had been a hot jet pilot in Korea, had flown more than 100 missions and won the Distinguished Flying Cross. But his assignment in Viet Nam to the low-level chore of winkling out Viet Cong did not dim his enthusiasm. On the contrary, Mac made himself the most celebrated "Fac" in South Viet...
...fact that he wants more men to add to the 3,500 Marines already around Danang. He has applied for another infantry battalion, and at least one squadron of Marine air cover not only for tactical infantry support in case of Viet Cong attack, but also for low-level bombing should the V.C. install long-range artillery. Lacking such additional firepower, Karch depends on the U.S. Seventh Fleet destroyer that cruises just off Danang ready to use its 5-in. guns as artillery support of the Marines...