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Pham Dang Lam, Saigon's observer at the talks up to now and a former Foreign Minister (1964-65), will head the official group. The other members include: Nguyen Xuan Phong, like Lam a Southerner and former Minister With out Portfolio under Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky when Ky was Premier in 1966; Mrs. Nguyen Thi Vui, niece of a Trotskyite killed by other Communists in 1946 and a successful law yer with a long record of working for the poor; Vuong Van Bac, a Northerner, a lawyer and a Ky man; and Nguyen Ngoc Huy, a professor...
...weeks after Lyndon Johnson announced that he was extending his limited bombing halt to cover all of North Viet Nam. U.S. Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker waited a week for South Viet namese tempers to cool-and for the American elections to end. Then he went to work to persuade President Nguyen Van Thieu to agree to send a delegation to Paris. So strained were the sessions that Deputy U.S. Ambassador Samuel Berger, who had been particularly unreceptive to Saigon's demands during earlier talks, had to be packed off to Hawaii. Thieu, under pressure from hard-liners within...
Thieu quickly began assembling a 100-man team to attend the talks, announced that Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky, while not actually heading the delegation, would be "supervising, controlling, directing, going between Saigon and Paris to receive instructions." Ky will also bring his lissome wife Mai to Paris as Saigon's answer to the Viet Cong's attractive Madame Nguyen Thi Binh (see THE WORLD...
...help shed the image that the Viet Cong are only jungle fighters in black pajamas, the Front pointedly named a chic woman to head its delegation. She is Madame Nguyen Thi Binh, 41, a member of the N.L.F. Central Committee and vice president of the South Viet Nam Woman's Liberation Union. A lifelong revolutionary who was first jailed by the French in 1950 for leading a demonstration against a U.S. arms shipment, Madame Binh is a well-traveled veteran of the Communist diplomatic circuit. She has represented the N.L.F. at conferences in Moscow, Peking and Cairo...
...desk manned by a Frenchman who appears to be a security man assigned by the French Communist Party. In the second-floor salon where Madame Binh has her office and receives visitors, the original pictures have been taken down (with the hooks left hanging), and portraits of N.L.F. Leader Nguyen Huu Tho and a young Viet Cong hero executed by the South Vietnamese stare down at a television set, several easy chairs, a chest topped by the N.L.F. standard and a conference table covered with green cloth, surrounded by eight straight-backed chairs. Through the bay windows of the salon...