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...nominee is the little soldier my Government has made my enemy, the Viet Cong. He is that special kind of enemy that makes many of us wonder if we aren't fighting on the wrong side...
...that Deputy U.S. Ambassador Samuel Berger, who had been particularly unreceptive to Saigon's demands during earlier talks, had to be packed off to Hawaii. Thieu, under pressure from hard-liners within his own government, wanted guarantees that there would be no recognition in Paris of the Viet Cong and no attempt to impose a coalition regime on Saigon. A break in the impasse finally came on Nov. 9, during a 90-minute meeting at which Bunker suggested that a U.S. statement be prepared offering assurances to Thieu. In the ensuing 2½ weeks, the U.S. statement went through...
...Will not give in to Hanoi's demands for enforced Viet Cong representation in any government of South Viet Nam. "The U.S.," said the statement, "will not recognize any government that is not freely chosen through democratic and legal process by the people of South...
...South Vietnamese flags as possible before any cease-fire might freeze territorial claims. Saigon wants to add no fewer than 1,000 hamlets to its control by early 1969: it now claims some measure of control in 5,100 of the country's 12,800 hamlets. The Viet Cong apparently operate on similar assumptions: since last summer, they have held revolutionary council elections in about 1,200 of their hamlets, presumably in an attempt to ready quasi-governmental structures for the day of a ceasefire...
...middle part of the country, II Corps, is quiet. Communist forces have either gone into hiding, drifted further south or slipped across the Cambodian and Laotian borders. Except for a massive, six-battalion attempt by the South Vietnamese last week in Chau Doc province to take a vital Viet Cong stronghold, the fertile and populous Delta area of IV Corps is equally calm...