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...Hanoi that the National Liberation Front be admitted to the talks. The U.S will counter with a demand for full representation of the Saigon government. That could take more weeks and months?particularly since the N.L.F. denies the legitimacy of the government of South Viet Nam's President Nguyen Van Thieu, and Thieu vows that he will not sit down with the insurgents...
WHEN talks begin, Americans looking among the Vietnamese negotiators for ascetic Hanoi heroes in the mold of Ho Chi Minh will be surprised by Mai Van Bo, the round-faced scholar who represents North Viet Nam in France. In his years as Hanoi's best-known envoy to the West, Bo has grown grey, stylish and somewhat stout on the haute cuisine of hostesses delighted by his foxy charm and affable wit. Hanoi watchers are convinced that Bo is kept in the know by his government. Three weeks ago, his henchmen were already murmuring that "we are prepared...
Acquaintances of Bo from his years in the South remember him as "articulate and able." South Vietnamese Premier Nguyen Van Loc is an old friend, and Bo once wrote a tune that now is the national an them of South Viet Nam. He has not been a designer but an executor of his government's policies. Nonetheless, his familiarity with the West should make him a valuable adviser to a delegation with little knowledge of the non-Communist world...
Although South Viet Nam had braced itself for the inevitability of negotiations between the U.S. and North Viet Nam, last week's agreement to talk cast a pall of gloom over Saigon. The only official acknowledgment of the decision was a grudging communique issued by President Nguyen Van Thieu's Foreign Ministry, warning that the talks could be used by Hanoi "for propaganda purposes" and "to foster dissension between the Republic of Viet Nam's allies." Still, for nearly a month the South Vietnamese government has had a negotiations task force at work preparing Saigon...
Belgium, when art nouveau was in flower, boasted one of its veritable orchids, Architect Victor Horta. Although four of Horta's buildings have been redesigned, destroyed by fire or demolished, the 66-room manse that he did for Baron van Eetvelde, Belgium's first Governor of the Congo, is preserved much as Horta left it. Moreover, in the annex of the hotel lives Architect Jean Delhaye, a kind of one-man Belgian fin de siècle society who is directing the reconstruction of the home Horta built for himself in Brussels, so that it can open next...