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...perimeter of the landing field, where two huge Soviet An-22 transport planes rested. But on the ground, all the reminders of that painful land war in Southeast Asia were washed away in atmospherics of amiability. Said Tran Quang Co, head of the North American section of Viet Nam's foreign ministry, prior to a welcoming banquet for the American visitors: "We hope that we can move to a new stage in relations between our two peoples...
That kind of broad diplomatic wooing of the U.S. has suddenly come into fashion in Viet Nam. The nation is embroiled in a fratricidal war, now more than two years old, with the neighboring?and ultrafanatical?Communist regime in Cambodia, and drifting at the same time into hostilities with another former friend, the People's Republic of China. The pro-American trend in Hanoi is all the more notable given the starchy posture of the victorious Vietnamese regime following the fall of Saigon in April 1975. For more than three years the government, headed by Premier Pham Van Dong...
There was plenty of good will on display for the delegation of eight U.S. Congressmen and their aides, headed by Mississippi Democrat Gillespie V. ("Sonny") Montgomery. The Americans were on a six-day tour of Viet Nam and Laos, investigating the fate of 340 U.S. servicemen still listed officially as missing in action during the Viet Nam War.* At the first talk between Vietnamese officials and Montgomery's contingent, Deputy Foreign Minister Phan Hien announced that the bodies of eleven of the M.I.A.s had been recovered, and at week's end the remains were ferried home. Montgomery concluded from...
...fact, a happy denouement still remains to be written. For a real breakthrough in relations to take place, the U.S. must lift its trade embargo against Viet Nam and allow at least a modest level of aid to flow there. There is no great rush on the part of the U.S. Government to proceed with either aid or trade. Says one State Department official: "We need to know clearly and precisely just what the Vietnamese really want, and then take a long look at the situation...
...Cambodia shows every sign of being a long-run affair and is a constant drain on national energies. On the other hand, the nature of the brutal Cambodian regime since 1975 is such that even Senator George McGovern?who campaigned for the presidency as a passionate foe of U.S. Viet Nam policy?suggested last week that armed international intervention might be necessary...