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...most recent debate over the Viet Nam War has centered on whether the U.S. was justified in bombing Hanoi in its attempt to achieve a truce. Now that the truce is here, and now that the budget and the dollar crisis have become urgent news (see THE ECONOMY), the debate on Viet Nam has shifted to a new question: should the U.S. spend billions of dollars to help its former enemies? No specific sum has yet been requested, although unofficial estimates have gone as high as $7.5 billion over the next five years for the reconstruction of all Indochina. Congress...
...final analysis there is hardly room for argument. Lyndon Johnson committed the U.S. to reconstruction back in 1965, and the truce accord makes that commitment binding. The real question is not whether the U.S. will provide aid, but how much will be provided, and in what spirit it will be given-and received...
TRYING to get out into the countryside to supervise the still shaky truce in South Viet Nam, an inspection team from the Four Party Joint Military Commission (the U.S., South Viet Nam, North Viet Nam and the Viet Cong) alighted from American helicopters in a soccer field at Ban Me Thuot, the Montagnard capital in the Central Highlands. Suddenly they were surrounded by a milling crowd of several hundred people, who threw stones and roughed up eight of the Communist representatives. A Saigon spokesman later apologized for the incident but claimed that the people had been "infuriated by Communist violations...
...Commission of Control and Supervision also ran into an unexpected problem: it could not even get into Quang Tri city, south of the DMZ, because that town was under a heavy North Vietnamese artillery barrage. Two full weeks after the signing of the settlement there still was no effective truce inspection anywhere in the country...
...talking to North Viet Nam's top emissary, Le Due Tho, Sullivan was working 18-hour days at the "tandem negotiations" that tack led the technical details of the cease fire, such as the logistical arrangements for the release of war prisoners and the machinery for supervising the truce...