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...surface, at least, his persistence brought the forms of peace no closer. North Vietnamese Spokesman Nguyen Thanh Le said that the two positions remained "as different as night from day." Still, U.S. negotiators noted that the session remained refreshingly free of propaganda blasts, and Lodge himself left convinced that "a basis now exists for productive discussions...
...senior Communist representatives returned from North Viet Nam-via Moscow-with a few surprises in their luggage. At the first meeting after their return, held as usual in the old Hotel Majestic, Hanoi's top representative, Le Due Tho, and the Viet Cong's showcase lady, Nguyen Thi Binh, opened for presentation a repackaged set of Communist proposals. In many respects it was the all-too-familiar farrago of impossible demands, but it contained sufficient changes in content and nuance to persuade the U.S. negotiating team that the Communists might finally be ready to talk serious business...
...reflect on their privations. As evidence, the monitors of Hanoi's newspapers and broadcasts report frequent condemnation of apathy and general slackness. There is also the tremendous death toll on the battlefield. In an interview with Italian Journalist Oriana Fallaci, North Viet Nam's Defense Minister, Vo Nguyen Giap, was asked if the American claim that he had "lost a half a million men" was correct. "That's quite exact," answered Giap without batting...
...most Vietnamese pilots, but combat is not. U.S. flyers usually spend a year in Viet Nam, then go home. The Vietnamese airmen have been fighting many years for a fraction of the pay ($80 a month for a first lieutenant v. about $1,000 for his American counterpart). Major Nguyen Va Le, commander of the V.N.A.F.'s 518th Squadron, knows he has flown at least 2,000 combat missions but adds, "I lost track after I reached 2,000." Colonel Nguyen Huy Anh has flown for so long that he is wise to the cruel tricks of the Viet...
Lafayette East. Until three years ago, the V.N.A.F. was a kind of Asian Lafayette Escadrille. The pilots came from good families, had their pick of Vietnamese girls to date, were togged up by then Commander Nguyen Cao Ky in natty black flying suits, black boots and sunglasses. But they had scant discipline and seldom bothered about flight conditions or briefings on enemy preparedness. In those days, some pilots refused to fly at any altitude except 9,000 feet because nine is the Buddhist lucky number...