Word: vietcong
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...group concluded that the United States should cease air attacks in North Vietnam and immediately begin negotiations which would include the Vietcong, recording to H. Stuart Hughes, professor of History, the temporary chairman. He that the Vietcong should be in the negotiations because it would be central any coalition government that would emerge from the talks...
...destroy the whole country of Vietnam," said Stone, "but we cannot win unless we are prepared to let this poor people for once decide their own destiny." Urging the United States to negotiate with the Vietcong, he said that the National Liberation Front "represents a desire for the kind of unification which will not bring the South under the domination of the North...
What exactly is the Administration doing? First, by increasing the number of American troops in Vietnam, Johnson is trying to consolidate the areas Saigon still holds in the South. He also wants to ensure that the South Vietnamese government isn't swept into the sea by the major Vietcong offensive expected later this month. Second, he is bombing North Vietnam, and perhaps raiding it as well. The bombing is designed to raise military morale, to pressure Ho Chi Minh to negotiate for peace on Johnson's terms, and to cut off transport arteries leading south. These arteries have carried whatever...
...made a speech launching a peace offensive. He understands, as do the Russians and Chinese, the advantages of talking peace while escalating the war. Fourth, Johnson is trying to coax the South Vietnamese government into enacting agrarian reforms. This is the best possible moment for such reforms, since the Vietcong has boosted land taxes in some of the areas it controls almost to the levels demanded by the old landlords. This was necessary to support the increasing number of Vietcong regular troops. The peasants in affected areas have retaliated by defecting and by giving the Southern army intelligence about Vietcong...
...interview yesterday, Hoffmann suggested threatening a city-country partition of South Vietnam, as a means of attaining political leverage. "If we really want to force the North Vietnamese or the Vietcong to negotiate," he said, "we might send in many more troops to protect the cities, leaving the countryside to the Vietcong...