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...gloom outside Saigon's Independence Palace and said: "I hope so, too." The three salvos were in fact salutations from the Viet Cong, whose mortarmen thus welcomed the U.S. Vice President to Viet Nam and attempted to turn last week's inaugural reception for President Nguyen Van Thieu and Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky into a wake. Fired from the roof of a shack in downtown Sai gon, the shells hit in the palace garden, precisely where Humphrey, Thieu, Ky, Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker and General William C. Westmoreland would have been standing had rain not forced the party...
...disagreement and valor." At the burgeoning base of Chu Lai, where he awarded medals to soldiers of the America Division, Humphrey reminded his audience that "nation-building is our business," and warned that "unless we win it here, America doesn't have another chance." In sessions with Thieu and Ky, he urged development of sound political parties and an end to the corruption and wrangling that has so often disrupted Vietnamese political life. To one and all, he passed along his primary message: "The Americans are here so that the Vietnamese can develop their own country in their...
...capital blossomed in red-and-yellow South Vietnamese flags. U.S. Vice President Hubert Humphrey, Korean Premier Chung Il-Kwon, Thai Deputy Premier Praphas Charusathien and the emissaries of some 20 other foreign governments journeyed to Viet Nam to witness this week's inauguration of President Nguyen Van Thieu and Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky. To celebrate the occasion, all Saigon zestfully prepared to take a brief holiday from war in a 48-hour round of ceremony and state receptions, fireworks displays and a giant National Day military parade...
...Thieu and Ky were to be sworn in outside the onetime opera house that now is the home of the National Assembly, whose lower chamber was elected last week in nationwide balloting. Nearly 73% of the electorate turned out to choose a 137-man House of Representatives from among some 1,200 candidates. South Viet Nam thus completed the edifice of the new civilian government-the fifth and final exercise of popular franchise in the war-torn country within the past 14 months...
However slim the chances that Hanoi will respond to a bombing pause with meaningful negotiations, the opportunity may soon be offered. South Viet Nam's newly elected President Nguyen Van Thieu said again that he would propose a bombing pause if it would lead to reciprocal talks. And it seems clear that the North Vietnamese are listening-both to him and the current U.S. debate. There even seems to be a remote chance that this will lead to talks sooner rather than later. Hanoi's hard-bitten Defense Minister Giap suggested last week that he is convinced that...