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Thieu meanwhile was quietly lining up support in the Senate and the National Salvation Front for a change of stance that would enable his country to join the talks. Ambassador Bui Diem was recalled from Washington for consultations with the President. From Paris, Ambassador Pham Dang Lam reported that arrangements for the arrival of a South Vietnamese delegation had been completed: housing had been secured and cars had been hired. Thieu also spent time working on the composition of a delegation, amid insistent demands from Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky that he head the negotiating group...
Western journalists usually knock in vain at that door with its peephole at 2 Rue Leverrier, a short walk from the house where Alice B. Toklas and Gertrude Stein used to hold court. Bo entertains other visitors, however, chain-smoking cigarettes and sipping pungent tea. His handsome wife, Pham Thi Ky, 43 (no kin to Saigon's Vice President), works in the mission's accounting department. Bo is widely read, an art lover, an ex-journalist, and his French is so polished that he once taught the language. He likes to quote Balzac, but his favorite aphorism, from...
...Viet Nam, there was more preparation for heavy fighting than major action. Most battle contacts were limited to skirmishes scattered throughout the countryside, but few allied military men expected the comparative lull to last. One reason was a man who figured prominently in the week's news: Colonel Pham Van Thanh, a Viet Cong since 1945, who crossed lines to become the highest ranking defector of the war. Thanh brought with him the warning that the Communists were about to attempt a second round of attacks as a sequel to their countrywide Tet offensive three months...
...visitors report that the most visibly active man in Hanoi these days is Premier Pham Van Dong, 60, who runs North Viet Nam on a day-to-day basis for Ho Chi Minh. Neither Dong nor Ho seems likely to relax many of the arrangements necessitated by the bombing. They cannot, of course, be certain that the raids will not resume...
...Dinner. Apart from that, and Hanoi's natural decision to ban him from military areas, Collingwood was given free access to the country and to its leaders. He talked for more than an hour with Premier Pham Van Dong "who's really running the country," and with the Foreign Minister and a colonel on General Giap's staff. They were, he says, forthright and "very courteous," except for their ritual charges of genocide and their use of propaganda phraseology. On his last night, North Vietnamese officials laid on a banquet of "a number of dishes...