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...highest-level meeting among officials of China, Russia and the U.S. since President Nixon made his visits to both Peking and Moscow. The triangular ballet was performed with finesse. Gromyko and Chi confronted each other only once. When the South Vietnamese fought for a provision recognizing the Saigon government as the only legitimate regime in the South, Gromyko sharply opposed it, while Chi remained silent. Gromyko later stalked over to Chi and asked: "Did your silence mean support of the South Vietnamese?" Chi stared at Gromyko with disdain, then turned his back. The provision was rejected...
...delegation-and suddenly, the P.O.W. release was back on schedule. Hanoi officials and the Viet Cong released the names of 136 Americans who, they said, would be turned over to U.S. military representatives early this week in Hanoi. In another private meeting, between the Viet Cong and South Vietnamese, Saigon's representatives promised better protection for the Communist truce watchers. Yet Hanoi did not seem reassured, and at week's end the Communists withdrew their JMC field teams from Hué and Danang. They were flown in U.S. aircraft to Saigon, thus further delaying the already tardy truce...
Tanks. Hanoi's complaints had some validity. Crowds of up to 4,000 South Vietnamese have assailed the Hanoi delegates at both Hue and Danang, throwing rocks and injuring six delegates. "If Saigon wants to stop these things, it can stop them," declared one high U.S. official. The Communist military representatives are mainly confined behind barbed wire and high fences in primitive compounds...
Both Vietnamese sides launched a numbers campaign, charging massive violations of the cease-fire by the other. The Communists claimed Saigon forces had committed 24,000 violations and had lobbed precisely 12,523 shells in Quang Tri Province. Saigon claimed 5,540 Communist violations since the agreement was signed. More seriously, the State Department revealed U.S. intelligence estimates of a new Communist troop build-up along the Laotian border, including the southward movement of tanks, and the setting up of SA-2 antiaircraft batteries at Khe Sanh...
...drove through Cholon and saw block after block of devastated buildings. Cholon and Gia Dinh had been the operations bases for the NLF battalions attacking Saigon during the 1968 Tet offensive. U.S. fire had leveled both districts in the counter-attacks. We had burned out villages and shot women and children and then built orphanages for the orphans we had made. Only whorehouses sprang up as fast as orphanages during...