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, in the conduct of negotiations by a number of American administrations has been to put forward proposals that are rather close to the, the minimum final outcome that's acceptable to the United States, while the Soviets put forward proposals that are uh, heavily weighted in their favor. And if you then end up, . Did he speak out or have strong feelings about the Soviet intentions in Africa in 1978, in Ethiopia and South Yemen? The Committee on the Present Danger had the grand design theory and the state department didn't. Where did he stand on that debate

this example of. You know, there wasn't people playing music that did that, you didn't hear it. They just kind of kicked it into gear, whatever the tune was, and it just went brrrrrrrrrrrrp to the end, and it was like that. But the idea, north and I go south, you know, I'm more apt to do something interesting. Can you talk about the Forest Hills concert for example? What was that experience like? The first job that we played

shooting back and uh, that was it. Now the other situation would be where ahh VC and NVA, they were ready for us. And, then it was very, to me, it was very harrowing. Ah. You're talking about, down south very rarely, I, I never saw anything bigger than a 51 calibers, but that, . And, to me that was absurd. We're fighting a war. Somebody's shooting at you, you turn around and you shoot back and you kill 'em, and I, they're gonna kill you. To me, it was very basic. Ah. There were areas south of Chu Lai, the My Lai area that was a completely restricted, . Beeping. End of SR #2835. VIETNAM SR 2836 HICKEY A Shure reference tone of minus ADB; this is Vietnam Project, WGBH T 876, episode 10; sound roll for this date, May 12, 1981, number 3, camera roll 861 67. Sixty second reference tone, 7 1/2 ips, 24 frames per second, mono recording. Coming up is sound

. But they did not reach the territory of Hoa Tien then. It was around the end of July and the beginning of August. 553, . We recognized the fact that soldiers from the North and fighters in the south were but comrades in arms. And the soldiers from the North also came and lived in Hoa Tien. They also stayed in the secret tunnels together, with us, eat with us and lived with us, and so we realized that there was close relationship between people in the North and people in the south. And the young people in Hoa Tien would tell the Northern brothers of any

was brought up in Chicago and also in Colorado and Wyoming and then moved to Boston was educated there and then worked in New York for many years and in 1940 I came down here with James Forrestal worked then with Mr. Roosevelt and later went on to work with Mr. Truman in the State Department and ah, . Well some people said that after Hiroshima they felt that after the first use of the atomic bomb that maybe war had ended that it was going to be too horrible in the future to have any war. What was your feeling

, the Americans went after us and bombed one end to the area to the other, flattening the entire area. They also used bulldozers to scrape the whole place clean. So during the day we stayed in the tunnels and in the late afternoon, after 5:30 or 6 p.m., we would climb out of our tunnels, to fight from the foxholes. During the night, we came out of the tunnels and attacked their command headquarters by lobbing B-42 and B-44 mortar shells and grenades in there. This went on day after day until the end of the Cedar Falls Operation. We wrestled very fiercely, able to apply the experiences gained from all the previous search and destroy operations to the Cedar Falls Battle. After that, by the end of 1967, in your opinion did the revolutionary forces grow

. There was racism on the radio, full. I, I, ah, this doesn't fit in there but I, I took a record up to Boston your town one time, I won't mention the jockey's name but I gave him, I gave him about ten records when I, the feeling that, ah, here you had blacks coming up from the South really from, you know, connected to slavery, coming up from the deep South to Chicago. Getting jobs in Chicago and Detroit in factories making money for the first time

. They are so imbued with their cause, that it follows on that anything they do to attain their ends and uh it justifies the means by which he gets there. Would you define uhm what the cause is, . So the people must protect themselves. Eventually, you can provide a main force, you can provide a constabulary force over a period of time, but the end purpose of this pacification is to prove to the uh, rural people that their interest in their future lies with the government and not with the Viet, . Therefore, you must go through stages of developing a better life for him, educating his children, bringing the health of the village up to par, providing money that he can borrow, uh, in order to buy his to buy his seed grain and fertilizer, and increase his harvest so that the end of the year he has

Andrei Andreyevich, did Stalin understand the importance of Truman's announcement in Potsdam that the USA had invented a nuclear weapon - the atomic bomb? I remember that episode well. It happened on the eighth day of the Potsdam conference. Straight after the end, situation in those days was not simple. The war with Japan was still going on. The Soviet Union had, earlier, at the Yalta conference, taken upon itself the obligation to enter the war against Japan not later than three months after the end of the war with Germany, thus performing its duty as an ally, . At that moment, did the Soviet leaders take it as a threat to themselves, or did they welcome the use of the bomb? The Soviet leader and the Soviet people as a whole condemned the nuclear bombing of Japan. I must restate this categorically: After the Potsdam conference had ended I came