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...Minh's embassy in Moscow. It was "simply returned," said the President, "in a plain envelope...
WASHINGTON, D.C.; March 21 -- President Johnson Personally wrote to North Vietnamese President Ho Chi Minh on Feb. 8 with a package offer aimed at initiating direct U.S.-North Vietnamese peace talks, it was disclosed today...
Understandably, the President is shifting his public outlook from the punitive war against the North to the U.S.'s more diversified efforts in the South. His attempts to get Ho Chi Minh to a conference table during the first two months of the year failed--principally because Washington refused to extend the Tet bombing pause unless it saw evidence that the North had "reciprocally" reduced its aid to the Viet Cong. Nonetheless, this was an extremely frustrating period for Johnson since public feeling that the war might end had soared...
...aggression for Hanoi in two weeks, following the decision to mine North Vietnamese rivers and bombard the Red homeland from naval guns at sea and long-range artillery firing across the border (TIME, March 10). It was by far the most serious warning yet administered to Ho Chi Minh that American restraint has its limits. Unless Hanoi's supply and infiltration of South Viet Nam slows, its sanctuaries are likely to continue to shrink and the roster of fresh targets to grow ever longer...
...British Prime Minister was not speaking to Ho Chi Minh, Charles de Gaulle or Ted Heath but to members of his own party. They were 60 or so dissident, left-wing Labor M.P.s who for months have been snapping at Wilson's policies. The rebels have outspokenly opposed his stands on Viet Nam (too hard), Rhodesia (too soft), the wage freeze (too tough on the working class), defense (too expensive), and possible entry into the Common Market (too great a surrender of sovereignty). If the rebels do not swing back in line, warned Wilson, he might just call...