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62 PEACE IN VIET 5. The Place of the National Liberation Front and the Ques of Elections, The United States has moved from a positior refusal to recognize any right of the Nadonal Liberation F to be at the negotiating table to a statement by Prestcent Johy that the presence of the National Liberation Froct is not an surmountabie obstacle” and that they “would have no diffic being represented and having their view represented.” “1 The tional Liberation Front and Hanoi, on the other haad. have insi all along that the Front must have‘an inder: in negotiations. Any hope deriving from President's statement was probably d the Secretary of State in a television intery jetcong’s political organization, the ‘ion Fr would not be given any political status or inte South \ nam through negotiations.” ** A question also remains about what type of South Vietnar representative the National Liberation Fr Nort 5 namese will accept at the conference table. P. indicated their unwillingness to reat wita of General Ky. The program of the National Liberation Front is Prez Van Dong’s third point. This has never beea acces United States. One part of the program is the election of a widely representative Nationa! Assemb! > The United States has indicated inevitable election of National Liberati including scme Communists, in the re government. In fact, Secretary Rusk hes If the South Vietnamese people have a e2 election make their own choices, they will not el Saigon. { do not believe that the South V 1 to pows 2 will be 3 « President Johason’s press conference. July 23. + “Alax Frankel. New York Times, December $. 1 “ Max Frankel, New York Times, December 8, } 965,