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Nonetheless, as the weeks wore on without results, it was Johnson?not Ho Chi Minh?who came under increasing criticism. From members of L.B.J.'s own party and foreign governments came mounting pressure for him to give in and take what Hanoi proffered, however unpalatable. Said New York's Senator Robert Kennedy while campaigning in Indiana for Johnson's job: "We need not worry about whether we will lose face by agreeing to a site we have not suggested. The important thing is to get the talks started. Each week of delay costs the lives of hundreds...
...Hanoi has persistently maintained, will it then go on to formal negotiations with a full agenda. But in its note to Washington last week, Hanoi significantly altered its wording; now, it said, it "is of the view that the formal talks should be held immediately." Possibly, Ho now intends to telescope the talks...
Whatever Thuy's official ranking, he has been one of Ho Chi Minh's closest and most trusted cronies for two decades. Rising steadily upward from his initial efforts as a schoolboy agitator against French colonial rule in the 1920s, he attracted the attention of the French Sureté, and at 18 was shipped off to the penal colony on Poulo Condore archipelago in the South China Sea, the Asian equivalent of Devil's Island. Two more jail terms followed, interspersed with propaganda work; from 1939 to 1945, he edited a clandestine pro-Communist newssheet...
...Thuy's work as an agitprop handyman that brought him into Ho's orbit. In 1950 Thuy was sent abroad, and he is a widely traveled rarity among North Vietnamese officials. Fluent in French and Chinese, he has touted Hanoi's line in Vienna, Stockholm and Rangoon, as well as Peking, Moscow and other Communist capitals, where he has generally appeared in the guise of a journalistic commissar. The softspoken, stumpy Thuy, whose name means spring water, emulates stay-at-home apparatchiki in one respect: his private life is shadowed in secrecy. Thuy is known to have...
WHEN talks begin, Americans looking among the Vietnamese negotiators for ascetic Hanoi heroes in the mold of Ho Chi Minh will be surprised by Mai Van Bo, the round-faced scholar who represents North Viet Nam in France. In his years as Hanoi's best-known envoy to the West, Bo has grown grey, stylish and somewhat stout on the haute cuisine of hostesses delighted by his foxy charm and affable wit. Hanoi watchers are convinced that Bo is kept in the know by his government. Three weeks ago, his henchmen were already murmuring that "we are prepared...