Word: vietcong
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...tragic that the flag of the Vietcong was flown in Sanders Theatre, for that flag represents the principles of Lee Harvey Oswald and Sirhan Sirhan to many South Vietnamese," Droge said...
Crowds began to mass at Sanders Theater shortly before 7 p.m. and continued to grow until the doors were thrown open at 7:25 p.m. The crowd, some of whom carried Vietcong flags and chanted, "Madame, Madame, Madame Binh; NLF is gonna win," filed in continuously until 7:55, when Sanders was filled...
Members of the Liberation Alliance reaffirmed last night their plans to "turn the teach-in into an anti-war rally" by clapping, heckling, carrying Vietcong flags and other actions." The group as a whole has not voted to clap the speeches down...
...social one as a military one, and the effect of certain military measures may be just the opposite of the effect desired, and may be far from making people love us, even if for the moment, out of fear of being killed, some of them renounce the Vietcong come over to our side...
Shaplen the observer occasionally becomes Shaplen the prophet, and his track record here is mixed. In 1965 he foresees two or three more years of war, just when the government was foreseeing two or three more months of war. In October 1966, he predicts that the only way the Vietcong can win the war is to engage the United States in lengthy negotiations while reducing the level of fighting, this at a time when Washington was refusing to negotiate. But, if his capacity as a prophet is unstable, his capacity as a reporter is unchallenged. Through it all, he documents...