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U Thant: Sees No Early End To War

U Thant: Sees No Early End To War
Clip: 425722_1_1
Year Shot: 1967 (Actual Year)
Audio: Yes
Video: B/W
Tape Master: 1758
Original Film: 040-020-01
HD: N/A
Location: Burma, Rangoon - Vietnam, Saigon
Timecode: 00:22:44 - 00:24:06

UN Secretary-General U Thant meets with North Vietnamese representatives, and then predicts a "prolonged and bloody" war unless the U.S. unconditionally halts the bombings in the North. Heavy fighting, spearheaded by tanks, pushes a Cong force back across the Cambodian border.

U Thant: Sees No Early End To War
Clip: 425722_1_2
Year Shot: 1967 (Actual Year)
Audio: Yes
Video: B/W
Tape Master: 1758
Original Film: 040-020-01
HD: N/A
Location: Burma, Rangoon - Vietnam, Saigon
Timecode: 00:22:44 - 00:23:12

Rangoon, Burma Secretary General U Thant attends a ceremonial meal with Buddhist Monks during his first visit home in three years. CU U Thant. U Thant sitting on the floor.

U Thant: Sees No Early End To War
Clip: 425722_1_3
Year Shot: 1967 (Actual Year)
Audio: Yes
Video: B/W
Tape Master: 1758
Original Film: 040-020-01
HD: N/A
Location: Burma, Rangoon - Vietnam, Saigon
Timecode: 00:23:12 - 00:24:06

Vietnam North of Saigon, a US Army tank makes its way thru the jungle. High Angle rear shot of the tank and a soldier sitting and manning the machine gun. Soldiers with pickaxes and shovels clearing a road for the tanks in the forest. A tank goes down a steep hill and into some water in the Vietnam forest. CU Tank rises from the waters. CU tanks moving through the jungle as a hovering helicopter comes in for a landing. Soldiers walk out of the forest and thru an open field.