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RE; COUNTEROPTE..fAu ON WRET: Even so, let's put it this way, the Vietnamese people, even if there was no anti-war movement in the United States or anywhere else in the world, are convinced, and I'm convinced also, that they would win final victory, that they would, that Vietnam will in fact win. Thry 3re*prepared to continue fighting the war five years, ten years, twenty years, thirty years, until that they've won the complete withdrawa] of all U. S. troops from Vietnam. At the tame time they're willing to do everything short of compromising these basic principles to ease the U. S. out of Vietnam. In fact, they put it as if the U. S. troops want red carpets and flcwers strew> before: them as they go to the boats, that they'll be glad to or:nize that for them. But they will not budge on the principle «f total and immediate withdrawal. At this point, they say that the U. S. anti-war movement can pluy an ahwort decisive rola not in the sense of whether or neh ily will win victery but in the sense of whether the war will end in a year or at an emly time, or whether ciie war will take Ienger to win. New, and that's what it about boils down to, and that'= I think ef this poirt our responsibility not only to the Victnamese people but to the American people as well. That's sort of the general cutline of what. the Vietnamese presented. in each of these areas they went into a lot more detail but one thing that they did talk about which is very difficult to convey unless you've actually met with them and talked with them, and studied the situation in Vietnam quite thoroughly, is bcw a nation of 14 million people, how this small underdeveloped nation has been able to take on what is supposedly the most. powerful military machine in the world and net erly bring it to a grinding halt, but ‘to actually defeat it on the battlefield. The kind of answer that they gave is prople's war. But again, I mean, to a lot of pecple th=t seems just like a slogan. And a lot of, and when the military guy was speaking to us, he had a few thoughts in his speech, that the greatest invention of the twentieth century is net nuclear weapons but people's war. The U. S. will never escape from the labyrinth and see of fighting of people's war. 119 ii Pinel gs a