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...Nguyen Thi Binh, the N.L.F. chief delegate, stood fast on the Viet Cong's seven-point plan, which insists upon a total U.S. withdrawal by a set date, the resignation of South Viet Nam's Nguyen Van Thieu and the establishment of a coalition government in Saigon that would include the Communists and supervise new elections...
...SAIGON--Nearly 100 U.S. B-52 bombers and a naval task force of more than a dozen cruisers and destroyers blasted North Vietnamese positions on both sides of the demilitarized zone Monday in some of the heaviest bombardments...
...Saigon command reported light fighting on the edges of Quang Tri, the provincial capital which fell to the North Vietnamese May 1. It said South Vietnamese paratroopers driving from the east had inched their way to within 200 to 300 yards of the Citadel, the 19th century fortress in the heart of the city...
...hour out of Saigon, Nguyen Thai-Binh, 24, a South Vietnamese returning home from studies at the University of Washington, took command of a Pan American 747 jumbojet and ordered the pilot to fly him to Hanoi. Thai-Binh's U.S. Government scholarship had been canceled at the Thieu regime's request, possibly because of Thai-Binh's antiwar activities. The pilot, Gene Vaughn, 53, flew into Saigon anyway, and Thai-Binh sent him a second order written in blood-apparently his own. It got him nowhere; he was shot dead by a vacationing American...
...SAIGON--American fighter-bombers hit North Vietnam with the heaviest raids in more than a week, setting fire to fuel depots and supply and port facilities in the Hanoi-Haiphong area, the U.S. Command announced Thursday...