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...Southeast Asia, the Year of the Snake ended and the Year of the Horse began. For the U.S. and its allies, last week marked a more ominous turning point. After a Christmas truce that was not a truce, after a four-day New Year cease-fire in which the firing did not cease, after a suspension of U.S. bombing raids over North Viet Nam that brought no whisper of response to President Johnson's intensive, month-long peace campaign, it was all too clear that the holiday and its fleeting hopes for peace were over...
Whatever the case, U.S. officials have been struck by the curious passivity of North Vietnamese troops in recent weeks. Not since before the Christmas "truce" have the Communists clashed heavily with U.S. and allied units. It has not been for lack of opportunity...
...Washington warn that the U.S. should do just the opposite, maintaining and perhaps increasing military pressure until discussions are successfully concluded. In his book, How Communists Negotiate, Admiral C. Turner Joy (ret.), the U.N.'s chief negotiator in Korea, charges that Washington's early agreement to a truce line at the Panmunjom peace talks in 1951 "was the turning point of the armistice conference. Thereafter, we lacked the essential military pressure to enforce a reasonable attitude"-and 70,000 American casualties were sustained under Communist attacks while the talks dragged on for two years. In Viet Nam, warns...
...diplomatic efforts with a substantial bombing pause. Senator Mansfield and his five-man Senate investigating committee submitted a report during the second week of December, a section of which was made public last Saturday, that called for immediate negotiations. In addition, Pope Paul's strong urging that the Christmas truce be used as the basis of a permanent cease-fire, along with his extremely vigorous activity in private diplomatic channels, added to the momentum of dove sentiment...
...brief holiday truce, violated continually by the Viet Cong, had come and gone, and the President said nothing. Day after day, the bombing pause over North Viet Nam went on and the President said nothing. Rumors of peace feelers to Hanoi spread like wildfire, and still the President said nothing...