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Armada Storms
Cong Island
By JACK WALSH
SAIGON (UPD—An armada
of 55 U.S. and South Vietnamese
boats and ships clamped the
war’s biggest blockade around a
Viet Cong island stronghold and
sent 1,000 infantrymen storming
in, military spokesmen said
today. They found few guerril
las but walked into a typhoon.
The South Vietnamese sol
diers sent Monday into the 20-
mile-lond island chain were the
Bassac River spills into the
South China Sea 75 miles south
of Saigon reported few signs of
the Communist supply bastion
they expected to find.
They lay directly in the path
of Typhoon Nina, whose 100
mile per hour winds began
pounding Vietnam’s southern
coastline today, grounding
planes and helicopters and
curtailing most of the allied war
effort.
Military spokesmen said the
Hanoi Expected
To Talk Tough
By K. C. THALER
LONDON (UPD—Communist
diplomats today said Hanoi's
price for a Vietnam war cease
fire is a coalition government in
Saigon, a neutral policy for
South Vietnam and an Ameri
can pledge to get out of the war
zone.
These demands made pros
pects for a cease-fire coming
soon from the now’ unstuck
Paris negotiations slender at
best. Communist and western
Hard Bargaining,
Fighting Ahead: LBJ
By HELEN THOMAS
SAN ANTONIO, Tex. (UPI)—
President Johnson, settling
down for a festive Thanksgiving
with his family, has hailed the
South Vietnam decision to
participate in the expanded
Paris talks, but warns “hard
bargaining and hard fighting’’
lie ahead
Saigon's ending its boycott of
the talks represented a major
diplomatic coup for Johnson,
who had been trying for nearly
a month to entice South
Vietnam to the bargaining
table.
But Johnson warned that
while the step opens a "new
hopeful phase” in the negotia
tions, “we must expect both
hard bargaining and hard
fighting in the days ahead.”
Johnson kept President-elect
Richard M. Nixon’s foreign
policy representative, veteran
diplomat Robert Murphy, in
close touch with the agreement
that spelled out a bigger role
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allied armada kept all Commu
nist escape routes blocked,
however, from the Mekong
Delta supply base that has
served as a launching pad for
numerous guerrilla assaults
toward Saigon.
Allied headquarters described
the offensive as the biggest of
its kind of the war and said
U.S. planes “softened up’’ the
six islands first with 200,000
propaganda leaflets urging the
Viet Cong to give up.
The infantrymen killed two
guerrillas and captured three in
the first two days. They stopped
128 sampans to search for
Communist contraband and
questioned 152 local villagers
about Viet Cong affiliations.
U.S. military weathermen
issued severe storm warnings
for the Mekong Delta in
preparation for Nina’s on
slaught. Heavy rains and 40
mph winds lashed coastal Vung
, diplomats said.
But they said that fighting in
Vietnam may gradually be
scaled down as progress is
made at the Paris talks, stalled
until South Vietnam’s agree
ment Tuesday night to attend.
Hanoi was understood to be
aiming at three key develop
ments in advance of a full-scale
cease-fire:
—The formation of a coalition
government In Saigon with
participation of the Viet Cong
for the government of President
Nguyen Van Thieu in the talks.
The Chief Executive arrived
at the LBJ ranch Tuesday night
after flying through rough
Texas weather. With him was
his daughter Lynda Bird Robb,
24, who brought her one-month
old daughter Lucinda Desha on
her first trip to Texas.
Awaiting him at his lush hill
country ranch was his wife
Lady Bird, who already had
preparations under way for the
First Family’s traditional turk
ey dinner.
The Johnson’s youngest
daughter, Luci Nugent& and her
son Patrick Lyndon were
expected to join the family
reunion today.
Luci spent the night in San
Francisco after flying from
Honolulu and a week’s visit with
her husband, Airman I.C.
Patrick J. Nugent before he
returned to Vietnam.
The President felt he could
take the Thanksgiving break to
be with his family after he
patiently moved the Vietnam
peace negotiations into a new,
and he hopes, more productive
stage.
He was expected to return to
Washington by the end of the
week when he and the First
Lady will begin a round of
Christmas thank-you parties.
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Tau as the typhoon headed
inland.
On the political front, South
Vietnam today announced it
would join the United States in
Paris for expanded negotiations
with Hanoi and the Viet Cong
and would “play a leading role’’
in the allied delegation.
The announcement broke Sai
gon's month-long boycott of
expanded Paris talks. U.S.
sources in the French capital
said the negotiations may begin
early next week.
In Moscow, the Soviet Union
disclosed a new aid agreement
with North Vietnam Tuesday
which provides Soviet food,
metal, arms, fertilizer and
chemical shipments to the
Hanoi regime.
The Soviet announcement said
the aim of the new pact was to
| enhance the North Vietnamese
j economy and defense system.
I and possibly also of Buddhists;
— A committment that South
Vietnam would be established
as a neutral country, free from
alliances, notably military alli
ances with the United States;
—A basic undertaking of the
United States to withdraw from
Vietnam, the terms to be
negotiated after the cease-fire
and with Hanoi evidently
prepared to compromise over
i the timing and phasing of the
. U.S. withdrawal.
The Communists were under
stood to be prepared to agree to
some form of international
supervision, including the super-
I vision of a cease-fire, probably
jby the existing International
i Control Commission for Viet
nam set up in 1954 by the
Geneva Conference that ended
the French-Indochina war.
This commission includes
representatives of Canada, In
dia and Poland. But its
composition might be altered to
meet changed circumstances.
Recent developments have
shown with Increasing clarity
the desire of Ho Chi Minh to
i steer a middle -of - the - road
course between Peking and
i Moscow.
Hanoi, to all indications, has
| freed itself considerably from
i the dictates of Peking and while
iit is taking advice from
! Moscow, evidently is not
i yielding to outright pressure.
The Soviets, in effect, accord
\ ing to best available informa
tion, have been exerting a
i moderating influence, advocat-
I ing negotiations for a settlement
! with the United States.
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