Word: tho
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...from the look of things. "We did not progress a single millimeter," said a North Vietnamese spokesman after two sessions that consumed seven hours and 50 minutes last week. Nor is the appointment of hard-lining Le Duc Tho, a member of Hanoi's Politburo who is due in Paris this week as an "adviser" on the talks, expected to do much to break the impasse...
...enemy target was Newport, the U.S. dock facilities in the Saigon River, where Communist forces unsuccessfully attempted to follow up a mortar and rocket attack with an assault. Within two hours the city had largely become quiet again. The Communists also shelled, among other cities, Hué, Pleiku, Can Tho, Kontum, My Tho and Quang Tri. Four U.S. Marines were killed and six wounded when five mortar rounds hit the Danang headquarters of Marine Commander Lieut. General Robert E. Cushman...
...Dinh Dzu, the presidential runner-up in last year's elections, was arrested last week for openly advocating coalition. Nonetheless, many members of the government have long maintained covert contacts with the Viet Cong and its political arm, the National Liberation Front, which is directed by Nguyen Huu Tho, a onetime Saigon lawyer who runs the front from a jungle redoubt. In many cases, the contacts are the residue of common cause in arms against the French more than a decade ago, or the result of family ties. There are signs that of late those contacts are being used...
...their part, Tho's Communists are also making internal preparations for the talks and for a possible coalition. They are as aware as the government that compromise has always been the lifeblood of traditional Vietnamese politics. Preparing for compromise, they have set up a new front for their National Liberation Front: the Alliance of National Democratic and Peace Forces of Viet Nam. Since the South Vietnamese constitution bans Communist political parties, the Alliance is a showcase of socialist, pacifist and nationalist-but not openly Communist-South Vietnamese, including Thich Don Hau, the representative of the Buddhist church...
...parts are added up, the dimensions of South Viet Nam's losses since Tet become clear: 14,300 civilians dead, 24,000 wounded, 72,000 houses destroyed, 627,000 new refugees. Of the 35 cities hit, ten suffered major damage: Kontum, Pleiku, Ban Me Thuot, My Tho, Ben Tre, Vinh Long, Chau Doc, Can Tho, Saigon and Hue. CORDS officials estimate that 13 of the country's 44 provinces were so badly hit that pacification has been set back to where it stood at the beginning of 1967. In an additional 16 provinces, it will take three...