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...press conference turns out to be really four press conference. The South Vietnamese government goes first, followed by the Americans, the Viet Cong, and the North Vietnamese. Each group waits about ten minutes after the previous group has left the stage before it goes...
...South Vietnamese representative gave the sort of predictable responses which make press conferences a bit boring, and the Viet Cong representative went into long harangues in Vietnamese, always grinning broadly at the audience...
...Defense Department pressure in 1959, however, Congress refused to make formal the "no first strike" rule. Still, the U.S. has in effect forsworn any intention of initiating deadly chemical-biological warfare. The use of herbicides to defoliate Vietnamese jungles, plus tear gas and CS to drive the Viet Cong from their tunnels, has brought some criticism; yet the effects have been exceedingly mild compared with the potential of other available chemical weapons...
...responsibility and the information to deal with the war's intricacies, Nixon felt that he should not meet with South Viet Nam's Nguyen Van Thieu until well after he had publicly outlined his own ideas on ending the war. Then, early in May, the Viet Cong proposed its ten-point plan in Paris, and less than a week later the President responded with his own eight-point proposal (TIME, May 23). The prospect for movement was growing faster than Nixon had anticipated. The meeting with Thieu, first planned for July, was moved up to June...
...last 50 years. "I see no end to progress so long as there is freedom for every voice to be heard," he said. Distantly heard, as he spoke, w,ere the chants of 100 radical students. Closely watched by police, they were picketing outside the stadium, carrying a Viet Cong flag and shouting, "Hey, hey, U.S.A., how many kids did you kill today?" Ten graduates walked off the field as Agnew spoke; three young spectators were arrested in the stands for "creating a disturbance"-making V gestures with their fingers...