Nearly 20 newsmen and photographers flocked around a Viet Cong flag set up in the middle of the field for last week’s meeting; the U.S. command had flown only four newsmen to the site.

The secret meeting between two one-time enemies unfolded in an apartment tucked down a side street in the center of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam ...

The items, a Viet Cong SKS rifle and a regimental Viet Cong flag, ... “The regimental flag meant a lot to me,” he said. “(The enemy) killed over 100 people there that night.

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