The statement issued Saturday said the Communist side had made "numerous sacrifices" in trying to make the talks succeed.

As well as conventional bombing, the Communist side claimed that the US had used biological weapons.

Within three years, 54 pilots and 20 airplanes joined the Communist side.

His time on the Communist side means he will always be politically damaged goods in Taiwan, forever handicapped.

The Communist side's intelligence operations, beyond the spies that were discovered, are much less known.

Mr. Dean became convinced the Communist side did not, at that time, want a permanent peace.

This book is about a boy who grew up on the Communist side of the Iron Curtain during the Cold War.

Last month, the Communist side refused to extend the two-month truce, and sharp fighting has resumed.

But although similar atrocities on the Communist side were frequent, no photographs of them ever penetrated Hanoi's propaganda filter.