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...their families and their 20 green-bereted American Special Forces advisers, A Shau in the best of times was an uneasy home. A barbed-wire and earthen-walled fortress bordered by a small airstrip, A Shau stood deep in Viet Cong-controlled territory not far from the Ho Chi Minh trail on the Laotian border. The camp existed for only one reason: to monitor traffic coming down the trail. Over the months, a kind of truce between the local Viet Cong and the Special Forces had evolved: live and let live by leaving each other alone. The truce worked until...
...articulate, respected voice to bolster their own fledging protests against the Vietnamese war. After all, Lacouture is uniquely qualified by both historical precedent and personal experience to criticize the U.S. position there. He's been to Vietnam seven times, written three books on the subject, knows Ho Chi Minh, and was press attache in 1946 to General Leclerc in Saigon. Since then, he has become a Grand Reporter for Le Monde--a sort of French James Reston. And he has been Le Monde's man-on-the-spot at numerous major crises: the abduction of Ben Bella; the assassination...
During the war, Lacouture twice met Ho Chi Minh (whom he calls "a shrewd comedian") and subsequently wrote the biography of this "pictureque and peculiar personality." When Ho dies Lacouture expects a bitter power struggle among his four lieutenants...
...ventured that Hanoi's leaders expect domestic dissent and international disapproval to sap America's will to fight the far-off war. "They have not forgotten that the Viet Minh won more in Paris than in Dien Bien Phu, and believe that the Viet Cong may be as fortunate in Washington." In summary, he maintained that present U.S. strategy is "the best that has been suggested. Certainly it is not without risks-but little of value in this world...
...peace lobbyists' motion was never brought to a vote. Instead, a group of senior Laborites dispatched a cable urging Ho Chi Minh to "agree to negotiate and leave the battlefield for the conference table...