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...Rademaekers in Paris and Jerrold Schecter in Washington traced the Kissinger spoor. It turns out that the first Kissinger mission, on Aug. 4, 1969, was set up through Jean Sainteny, a former French commissioner in Hanoi and a longtime intimate of North Viet Nam's late leader, Ho Chi Minh. When it became apparent that more Kissinger flights would be necessary, French Foreign Minister Maurice Schumann was approached during U.N. meetings in New York in the fall of 1969, and he agreed to enlist his government's aid in protecting the negotiations. Pompidou cooperated so completely as to order government...
Though Vietnamization has not been tested in battle, the process is largely complete, reports Cloud, who has just finished an extensive tour of South Viet Nam's four military regions: "From the DMZ in the north to the U Minh forest in the south, the sunburned or black faces of American G.I.s have been replaced by the delicately carved, pale yellow faces of Vietnamese, who are obliged to carry on the fight. Now, in all but a few corners of the country, the South Vietnamese, trained and supplied by the U.S. and supported by American airpower...
...they have floundered, the problem has been that perennial ARVN soft spot, poor leadership. U.S. military men give high marks to a number of top officers, among them General Ngo Quang Truong, commander of IV Corps, and Major General Nguyen Vinh Nghi, whose 21st Division cleared the treacherous U Minh forest in the Mekong Delta in a tough but little-noted operation last year. Even so, most U.S. advisers below the rank of major speak of their Vietnamese counterparts with condescension if not outright contempt...
...American-sponsored invasion of Laos last February was ostensibly directed at cutting off the main supply route from North to South Vietnam--the Ho Chi Minh Trail. For years before the invasion the United States had engaged in extensive bombing of the trail; enough bombs have been dropped on it to have rendered the entire U.S. Interstate Highway System impassable, yet the trail has survived...
What is it that makes the Ho Chi Minh Trail so durable? Is it the superior quality of North Vietnamese tarmac? The answer is much simpler--there is no Ho Chi Minh Trail. The name itself was invented by Americans. The Ho Chi Minh Trail is not a trail, but rather an area not under American control; and that area is called Laos...