The World: The Mood of Hanoi: Lonely and Alert

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There is a friendly colony of pro-Vietnamese foreigners in Hanoi, among them a Swedish diplomat, Algerian, French, Italian and Cuban journalists, the reserved and solitary Chinese, some English and Canadians, and some Muscovites who never comment on any situation until they have read Pravda.

Last month there were important visitors like Konstantin Katushev, Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the U.S.S.R., and Nikolai Firiubin of the Soviet Foreign Ministry. They were courteously received and left convinced that the Vietnamese were determined to settle their affair with Mr. Nixon by themselves, a reliable source told me.

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