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Digital Object Identifier
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363-04423 to 363-04428
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Title
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Article about Hanoi's reaction to the USSR's invasion of Czechoslovakia
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Description
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Original title: "hanoi", Keever's title: "Hanoi Supports Soviet Invasion of Czechoslovakia; Denounces U.S. Democratic and Republican Parties and their Nominees." Article draft about North Vietnam's reaction to the Warsaw Pact's invasion of Czechoslovakia and the U.S. Presidential primaries of 1968. Written for the Christian Science Monitor
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AI Usage Disclosure
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Draft transcripts were automatically generated via Google Document AI and are currently under review. Please report significant errors to Archives & Special Collections at archives@unl.edu.
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Transcript
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zczc sag
Jy nnm
hanoi 1 (normass/deepe)
SAIGON,
AUGUST 23 Hanoi has evidently given up hope that the
American nominating conventions and Presidential election will benefit the
Communist position.
North
In recent days,
Radio Hanoi has broadcast even more vitrolic
denunciations of both the Republican and Democratic Parties than their
Communist spokesman in Paris had previously voiced. But, the full dimension
of the statements was not appreciated until Hanoi supported the verbally
supported the Soviet invasion of Czeckoslovakia--and the next dy morning,
rocketed Saigon city for the first time in two months.
The do
The Communists'
refraining from rocketing Saigon had previously been considered as an
act of military restraint conducive for a more conciliatory atmosphere at
the Paris peace talks.
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hanoi 2 (normass/deepe)
"Maybe the Communists have abandoned any hope of getting anything
out of the American electionk election," one informed source explained.
"One high-ranking Communist defector said that is Hanoi had once placed
great hope in the election of Sonator (Robert F.) Konnedy.
defector said, once the Senator was assassinated,
But, the
Hanoi would have to
re-think the matter. Now, they have denounced all the candidates.
Communists
If they have abandoned the hope of getting a big opportunity from the
then there's only course for them to take-armed action.
American election,
And that looks like what they're doing."
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hanoi 3 (normass/deepe)
A Vietnamese political source close to gi government circles
explained the situation a little differently.
"Hanoi would like to influence the American election," he explained.
"But, they don't know how to do it. They should have said the Nixon
nomination might open up a fresh basis of negotiation with the
Allies. But what did they do--they condemned Nixon and the Democratic
candidates too. The Communists are too rigid. They don't kn ropoat don't
know the language of moderation."
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hanoi 4 (normass/deepe)
On August 19th-shortly before the Soviet invasion of Czeckoslovakia--
n the official party
Radio Hanoi carried the full text of a commentary, that appeared in
"When Den" (People)
of the same day The Vietnamese-
language broadcast directed towards South Vietnam targeted its soaring
commentary at the Republican Party platform, but also attacked the
Democratic Party and American elections in general. On the general
condemnation of the American electoral process, the broadcast said that
"for over a century the offices of the U. S. President,
Vice President
and congressmen have been held in turns by the Republican and Democratic
Parties...Not once in 36 Presidential terms has this most powerful
U. S. office been out of the grip of these two American bourgeoisie parties...
The two-party regime is, in fact, a dictatorship by the capitalist
monopolist groups,
affixed with a coat of faked democracy and deceitful
free election."
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BROADCAST
The lengthy commentary then turns into a lengthy tirade against the
saying that it "clearly reflects the declining
Republican Party platform,
American position and isolation in every field in its world relations."
D
It continues: "Concerning the Republican Party, what did its platform have
for solving the war in Vietnam? The Republican Party platform advocated
strengthening the regional forces and encouraging South Vietnam
tantamount to advocating,
to assume increasingly greater responsibilities,
maintaining and strengthening the Saigon puppet administration and armed
forces under the beau beautiful term 'not Americanizing the war'
In short, the Republican Party continues to cling to the neocolonialist
policy of aggragason i aggression in South Vietnam."
Turning to the Democratic Party, the broadcast said: "Although
the Democratic Party has not yet made public its electoral platform,
everyone knows that Johnson and his assistant Humphrey are Democrats and
the policy of the Johnson administration and the Democratic Party is a
very reactionary policy in both domestic and foreign policy..."
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The attack then switches to the current administration and even
its predecessors" The U. S. imperialist policy of aggression in Vietnam
has been carried out step-by-step by three U. S. Presidents: Republican
(ThE AMERICANS)
Eisenhower and Democrats Kennedy and Johnson....As long as they stubbornly
pursue the war of aggression, whether they are Democrats or Republicans,
the U. S. imperialists will certainly receive more ignominious failures."
(Hank: Is Beb Pond alright? 1 Does John Hughes have plans
Coming
of arriving here? You might tell him the military situation is gradually
getting more serious, but no massive ground assault on Saigon is
expected until later this month-if at all. However, if you want more
coverage from the field, maybe he would consider coming in now.
unwi se
abosanmim to leave Saigon uncovered to do any significant traveling.
with only one person here. I'll file another piece today on B-52s
for the weekender. Regards Bev).
It Seems
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Date
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1968, Aug. 23
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Subject
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Vietnam (Democratic Republic); Soviet Union; Czechoslovakia--History--Intervention, 1968; Primaries; Presidents--United States--Election--1960; Public opinion; Vietnam--Foreign relations--United States
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Location
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Saigon, South Vietnam
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Coordinates
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10.8231; 106.6311
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Size
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20 x 26 cm
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Container
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B10, F38
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Format
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dispatches
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Collection Number
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MS 363
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Collection Title
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Beverly Deepe Keever, Journalism Papers
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Creator
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Keever, Beverly Deepe
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Copyright Information
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These images are for educational use only. To inquire about usage or publication, please contact Archives & Special Collections.
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Publisher
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Archives & Special Collections, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries
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Language
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English
