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Digital Object Identifier
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363-04961 to 363-04963
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Title
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Article about South Vietnamese-Cambodian diplomacy
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Description
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Orignal title: "profocus", Keever's title: "U.S. Military Warns Hanoi is Big on Soviet-made Tanks [?] Raid into South Vietnam", Article draft about South Vietnamese-Cambodian diplomacy, for the Chirstian Science Monitor, page 1-3
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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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SAIGON, NOVEMBER 18-Profocus.
Although far less dramatic than
the Paris snafu, the Saigon government has suffered another recent
diplomatic setback. For the past several months, behind-the-scenes,
Foreign Minister Tran Chanh Thanh has been attempting to re-establish
diplomatic relations with South Vietnam's pivotal, but aloof neighbor
of Cambodia. Embarrassingly for Saigon, the Viet Cong's National
Liberation Front maintains propaganda and quasi-diplomatic offices in
Phnom Phen. Saigon wanted the diplomatic rapproachment with Cambodia
to compete with the Viet Cong on the political-psychological side, to spy
PAVE
on them--and to pare the way for developing contacts in case either
Saigon or the Viet Congor both should desire secret conversations
in the future on an internal South Vietnamese political arrangement.
last week, the word from Prince Sihanouk was-noe
But,
more
Beverly Deepe; RCA card no. 78903
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Profocus pago 2. For several months now,
there have boon reports
that the North Vietnamese Army was using Soviet-made tanks to defend and
keep open its Ho Chi Minh Trail supply route in southern Laos. But, last
wook, General Creighton W. Abrams-American commander here who is himself
a World War Two armor herewas reportedly warned by senior field officers
not to be surprised if those NVA tanks made a mad-dash raid into South
The high-impact raid would be conducted for political-psychological
purposes to escalate Hanoi's bargaining position in Paris,
reason, since the jungled border area is hardly by military standards
suitable "tank-country." One suspected tank target, however, is the
Vietnom.
these officors
Special Forces camp of Duc Co,
Route 19, which is the middle of three major horizontal highways running
from the soncoast through the rugged high plateau to the Laog-Cambodian
bodes borders. Duo /Co is situated at the Lon on Route 19 much like
the Long Wei Special Forces camp-near Khe Sanh-was at the Laotian end
of Route 9. Lang Voi was overrun February this year ab the Khe Sanh siogo
NUR
accelerated when the Nonthe first introduced a the use of armor
situated near the abandoned western end of
in the war.
And, officers told Gonoral Abrans, the Soviet-made tanks near
Laos are larger than the PT-76's that overran Leng Vei.
Beverly Deepes RCA card no. 78903
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Prohayward.
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on or wI1@the_qv/
Viewve Rueter Routers cable-out, expected to be out
several days, I'm ok telexing these two foou fooil foci.
We've already
so I'm planning
cabled roughly sixteen thousands Routers words anyhow,
on mailers in the interim until hard news breaks. Please cable specific
or other instructions. Situatio Paris situation still too
requests
murky to write.
I've airmailed
zeepager and will go to Bien Hoa for
field interviews half-day later this week. Regards To Bov.
Beverly Deepe; RCA card no. 78903
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editorial note 1 (normass/deepe)
1391
SAIGON, NOVEMBER 16 The following is excerpts and an abridgement
reaction to Clark Clifford's
of the official Vietnamese government's
statement. This is based on a press conference with Ton That Thien,
There's no such thing as an official transcript Roug
HND
so this must be considered an unofficial
Minister of Information.
of a Vietnamese press conference,
tion. Also,
over the week-end on political developments,
jelled well enough at this point to write about. Regards Bev.
some of the questions are summarized.
We'll check
but I don't think things are
==end reuter
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Date
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1968, Nov. 18
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Subject
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Cambodia--Relations--Vietnam (Republic); Mặt trận dân tộc giải phóng miền nam Việt Nam; Ho Chi Minh Trail; Tank warfare; Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Vietnam (Democratic Republic); Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Soviet Union
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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, F39
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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
