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...some respects, Pyrrhic. To bring its triumph home to the world once again, xenophobic Viet Nam, which allowed all of 252 tourists to enter in 1983, welcomed 400 journalists and technicians from abroad, most of them American (see PRESS). To many observers, the willingness to accommodate the newsmen underlined Hanoi's eagerness to restore relations with Washington. For all its efforts, however, Viet Nam's peace offensive seemed unlikely to gain any ground...
Lewis maintains that Veliotis' tapes are unreliable evidence and his accusations merely a personal vendetta against his old bosses. Said the chairman to the Dingell committee: "It is incomprehensible that the word of Veliotis, indicted for lying under oath, has been so eagerly accepted by newsmen and investigators, while accurate explanations given by General Dynamics people have been largely ignored...
...killing of the newsmen came as the Israelis were performing two complicated maneuvers: withdrawing from southern Lebanon and at the same time staging raids back into areas previously evacuated. In the course of the week they reported killing 21 guerrillas while losing two of their own men. The situation, in the words of Israel's northern commander, Major General Ori Orr, had reached a state of "all-out war," with an average of 70 Shi'ite attacks a week against the Israeli forces. As Israeli anger grew last week, there were repeated calls from Cabinet ministers for an accelerated withdrawal...
...hours before the Vietnamese struck, Prince Norodom Sihanouk, the anti-Hanoi coalition's nominal head, had paid a visit to Phnom Malai to announce support from a scattering of Third World nations. During Sihanouk's visit, Khieu Samphan, one of the Khmer Rouge's top leaders, had assured newsmen that "we are safe here." Describing the Vietnamese as hard-pressed by guerrilla operations deep inside Kampuchea, he said, "They are in difficulty. We are more and more strong...
Only a few hundred yards away, the marchers encountered a line of policemen stretched single file across the street. Undeterred, Walesa, Lis, about 100 supporters and some foreign newsmen elbowed their way through. Regrouping, the police kept the main body of the demonstrators from advancing. A little farther down the street, the Walesa group pushed through a second police line as the rest of the demonstrators began to chant, "Solidarnosc! . . . Solidarnosc!" By then, Walesa had encountered a third group of police, this time elite ZOMO riot cops; helmeted and armed with batons and shields, the troopers stood several rows deep...