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...creation of an election commission in which the Front would be strongly represented along with the Saigon government. The commission would run the balloting for a new government, committing both sides to abide by the results. Another ingenious, if unlikely, scheme has been suggested by Buddhist Nationalist Thich Nhat Hanh: an interim government made up of those South Vietnamese who reject the leadership of both the National Liberation Front and the Saigon government...
...insight but some sharp feminine glimpses of enemy territory-and of Mary McCarthy herself. She likes her little comforts. "To my stupefaction," she writes, "there was hot water, plenty of it. . . At the Continental in Saigon, there was only cold water." Amid "other luxuries I found at the Thong Nhat Hotel were sheets of toilet paper laid out on a box in a fan-pattern." Since she was served "little cups of tea" almost everywhere she went, she wondered why she got tea at the War Crimes Museum but beer at the War Crimes Commission. "Perhaps I should have asked...
...only damaging to human life and property, but also to our morality," Nhat Hanh said. "We rely on the intellectual and religious community in the U.S. to understand our suffering and help us out of a desperate situation...
...Nhat Hanh said, the Viet Cong have a number of effective propaganda weapons in addition to the claim that the U.S. is fighting an imperialist...
...advantage of being indistinguishable from the peasants, and as a result there is a very high rate of civilian casualties when the U.S. retaliates after Viet Cong attacks. "When your press reports that 600 Cong were killed in a military operation, that figure may include 590 innocent peasants," Nhat Hanh added...