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...Secretary-General U Thant, not only for his blatant partisanship on Viet Nam, but also for his aphronic action in pulling the entire U.N. peace-keeping force out of the Sinai desert, particularly since Nasser originally asked him to remove it from only half of the 120-mile truce line. In a rare public slap at Thant, Johnson said he was "dismayed at the hurried withdrawal...
Punctuated by an unquiet, 24-hour interlude of truce to celebrate the birth day of Buddha, the ground war in Viet Nam quickly made up for lost time with more of the ferociousness and high casualties that have marked it in recent weeks. The Marines ended their sweep through the Demilitarized Zone on the eve of the truce, but quickly thrust back into it when a battalion of Marines to the south was hit by fire from Hill 117 inside the DMZ. The battalion was joined by a second, and the two counterattacked. After a fierce battle in which...
...deadlock for another 90 days, while a new five-man mediation board sought a settlement. If there were no voluntary agreement by the end of that period, the outside mediators would dictate terms binding on both sides until January 1969. Then-after the next presidential election-the enforced truce could well be derailed once again...
General Walt helicoptered into Khe Sanh several times in the course of the fighting and came under fire himself-to the extent that he was once forced to dive into a foxhole. The series of battles constituted, he said, the seventh time since the February Tet truce that his Marines had stopped an enemy offensive aborning. From the Laos-supplied arrow of Khe Sanh, the Communists would have had a straight shot east across Quang Tri province. By vigorously denying them that shot, the Marines may well have frustrated an even larger invasion directly southward across...
...Truce: Friendship...