![]() ![]() In Saigon, the South Vietnamese government had forced shop owners to display banners that predicted, "1968 Will See the Success of Allied Arms."Īt the stroke of midnight in South Vietnam's Mekong Delta, the church bells in the town of Mytho rang in the new year. The People's Liberation Armed Forces in South Vietnam, a pro-North Vietnamese guerrilla force in the South, popularly known as the Viet Cong, announced a 72-hour cease-fire. For his day of peace, the pope had persuaded the South Vietnamese and their American allies to give a twelve-hour extension to their twenty-four-hour truce. ![]() Pope Paul VI had declared January 1 a day of peace. The headline on the front page of The New York Times read, world bids adieu to a violent year city gets snowfall. The year 1968 began the way any well-ordered year should-on a Monday morning. ![]()
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