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Last September Mungo flew to Czechoslavakia for a secret meeting with representatives of Communist North Vietnam and the Viet Cong. When he returned, he claimed that he had "established firm connections with the so-called enemies of our country...
...There exists a desperate need for reevaluation of our foreign policy, particularly in Vietnam," Kistiakowsky said last night in a CRIMSON interview. He called for a cessation of U.S. bombing of North Vietnam and for recognition of the Viet Cong in any coalition government...
Viet Nam coverage, writes Smith, is full of one-sided journalism, such as the widely printed photo of the South Vietnamese police chief's execution of a Viet Cong. "Not even a perfunctory acknowledgment was made of the fact that such executions, en masse, are the Viet Cong way of war." Smith reports that his own son Jack, left for dead by the Communists in the battle of la Drang, witnessed the execution by the enemy of a dozen U.S. soldiers who were in uniform...
...authors then document the North's aid to and control of the Viet Cong and conclude that it is a war of aggression to which the U.S. may respond. But even if it were only an internal conflict within South Viet Nam, Hull and Novogrod report that accepted international law says that any country, if asked, may aid the existing government; no country may aid the insurgent. "Admittedly," say the authors, "existing law favors the established government. Admittedly too, at a time when many areas of the world are attempting to break the shackles of colonialism, this result...
...John J. ("Black Jack") Pershing; of combat wounds; near Quang Tri, Viet Nam. A Yale graduate who received his Army commission seven months ago, Pershing went to Viet Nam and was leading a patrol in search of a member of his platoon when he was killed in a Viet Cong ambush...