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NOTHING more vividly illustrated the end of the war for the U.S. than the arrival in Saigon last week of Lieut. General Tran Van Tra, chief representative of the Viet Cong on the Joint Military Commission-aboard an American helicopter. Tra, 55, is deputy commander of the Communists in South Viet Nam and the man who directed the 1968 Tet offensive...
...Cambodian border, a town that his troops had captured last spring. Seven UH-1 helicopters, painted with white stripes to signify that they were in the commission's employ, picked up Tra and 29 of his officers, still wearing their jungle-green uniforms; one Viet Cong arrived in Saigon carrying his automatic weapon...
...presence in Saigon was necessary to help untangle the intricate web of arrangements on which the truce depends. The Joint Military Commission needed all four members-from the U.S., North Viet Nam, South Viet Nam and the Viet Cong-before it could begin to work out procedures, let alone stop truce violations by either side. The J.M.C. had to be operating before the International Commission of Control and Supervision-otherwise known as the CHIP commission, after its members. Canada, Hungary, Indonesia and Poland-could get down to business...
Even when they resorted to outright terror, the Vietnamese revolutionaries used it to further progressive ends. By assassinating selected Saigon officials who implemented the harsh edicts of the American-backed regime, liberation forces grew in stature among the South Vietnamese people and gained a steady stream of converts to the revolutionary cause...
...leaving the problem of implementation to the South Vietnamese, the new peace agreement satisfies Hanoi's demand that the United States abstain from any attempt to impose a government in the South. At the same time, the agreement takes into account the UnitedStates's demand that the present Saigon government remain intact at least for the duration of the political settlement...