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...TROOP WITHDRAWAL ISSUE. We reject this allegation [that there are some 100,000 to 145,000 North Vietnamese troops in the South]. This story has been, and continues to be, a pretext for the U.S. to commit aggression in South Viet Nam. We receive wholehearted support from North Viet Nam as from other countries, but the people's liberation forces in the South are under the Provisional Revolutionary Government. To demand the departure of these forces is to demand the elimination of the P.R.G. This is totally unacceptable. This is an issue between the P.R.G. and the Saigon government...
...Demilitarized Zone, the teams will oversee not only the ceasefire but also the elections called for in the nine-point plan. One team, located in Hanoi, will supervise the release of the American P.O.W.s, who are to be freed in two batches during the 60-day period of troop withdrawal following the ceasefire...
...supplies, including F-5E jet fighters obtained on a crash basis from Iran, Taiwan and South Korea, into South Viet Nam in an effort to give the ARVN more muscle before a cease-fire goes into effect. The Communists are trying equally hard to beat the deadline by rushing troop reinforcements and as much materiel as possible down the Ho Chi Minh Trail. Neither side wants to be at a disadvantage when the dance ends and the fire goes...
...added that the emphasis of tomorrow's rally would be on total troop withdrawal rather then just ceasefire. "It's too easy for a cease-fire to be-broken while big military build-ups are still taking place in the area," she said...
April 1966. U.S. starts to use B-52s to bomb North Viet Nam. U.S. troop strength rises to 389,000 at end of year...