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...election also brought out Japan's considerable strain of pragmatism. Japanese voters have an abiding admiration for Ho Chi Minh's holdout against U.S. attack, but they can also understand why the U.S. cannot return Okinawa, with its B-52 landing bases, so long as the war continues-and the electorate decided not to make an issue of it. Sympathy with China, on the other hand, has declined rapidly as Japanese newsmen and businessmen have been harassed and imprisoned there; trade with China has declined 20% in the past two years. Even the popularity of the talent candidates...
...Quakers had planned a second voyage with medical supplies last fall, but when Ho Cho Minh protested that such a voyage would be too dangerous, Phoenix headed for South Vietnam on its humanitarian mission. After the incidents with the South Vietnamese government and a layover just off Cambodia (to avoid provoking Cambodian-American relation), Ho sent word to the crew to come to Haiphong during the Tet truce at the end of January...
Whether or not the North Vietnamese have come to Paris to make peace ultimately, it is clear that for the time being they are relentlessly determined to raise the level of fighting in South Viet Nam. More North Vietnamese men and materiel are flowing down the Ho Chi Minh Trail to the southern battlefields than at any time since the war began-perhaps as many as 30,000 a month v. 6,000 monthly a year ago. With a ruthless disregard for civilian lives, the Communists, in almost daily rocket attacks and periodic, suicidal infantry thrusts, have brought the fighting...
...American and anti-Thieu overtones. "If the Americans want to withdraw, they can go ahead," he told Vietnamese soldiers in Saigon. "We only want people who want to stay." On another occasion he asked his audience: "Why has South Viet Nam not been able to produce a Ho Chi Minh or Vo Nguyen Giap whom the world admires and respects? Why have we been unable to produce such people? Isn't it because our leaders are merely a bunch of servile and corrupt officials...
Heavy-handed amateur ironies prevail. A Polaroid commercial is doctored to show a still of a dead soldier; a Band-Aid commercial is spliced into combat scenes. Only bits and pieces of conversation with Ho Chi Minh and Fidel Castro give anything like a sense of ideological actuality. The rest has the secondhand look of a film that has been petulantly edited, as the title implies, far from Viet...