The Protracted Conflict

Back at the Same Old Stand?

NONE OF the communiqués or news reports from Peking mentioned what may have been the topic most intensely discussed by Secretary of State Kissinger and his hosts. It does not seem likely that either of the two pirouetting “sides” (as they continue, rather coyly, to call themselves in the official dispatches) would have neglected the signs and portents lately rising over a region of such inevitable concern to them both as Vietnam. Nor does there seem to be much dispute about the facts that stoke the portents.

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Back at the Same Old Stand?

NONE OF the communiqués or news reports from Peking mentioned what may have been the topic most intensely discussed by Secretary of State Kissinger and his hosts. It does not seem likely that either of the two pirouetting “sides” (as they continue, rather coyly, to call themselves in the official dispatches) would have neglected the signs and portents lately rising over a region of such inevitable concern to them both as Vietnam. Nor does there seem to be much dispute about the facts that stoke the portents.