Battlefield Meeting
CV.Z.P. A.-Reuter—Copyright) SAIGON, Dec 25. United States officers prepared to set out by helicopter today for an unprecedented Christmas Day battlefield meeting with Communist representatives to negotiate the release of three American prisoners. It will be the first time in the Vietnam war that United States representatives have negotiated directly with the Communist National Liberation Front of South Vietnam for the release of American prisoners. The meeting is scheduled to take place in a no-man’s land of rice paddies along a river 50 miles north-west of Saigon, three hours before the 24-hour Allied cease-fire is due to end.
Record for Airlines.—The world’s airlines will have carried a record 261 million passengers on scheduled routes by the end of this year—a 12 per cent increase on the 1967 figure, the International Civil Aviation Organisation estimates.—Montreal, December 25.
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Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31871, 26 December 1968, Page 9
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