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single-minded Coordination Committee in Bangkok. But as a strate- 

 gem to undermine popular sentiment in North Vietnam and to set in 

 train a course of events to bring an end to the war on terms favorable 

 to the United States, the proposal demonstrated scant success. It is 

 conceivable that the move may have generated an attitude of opposi- 

 tion on the part of the communist countries toward various kinds of 

 regional cooperation for the future. 



