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...groundwork for a tranquil succession. Over the past several years, Ho had gradually moved away from the day-to-day exercise of power, turning over routine responsibilities to a triumvirate consisting of Premier Pham Van Dong, Party First Secretary Le Duan and high-ranking Politburo Member Truong Chinh, all in their early 60s (see box, page 28). For the immediate future, Ho's title will probably be taken by Vice President Ton Due Thang, an 81-year-old nonentity. Actual power will probably be wielded by the triumvirate?plus Defense Minister Vo Nguyen Giap...
...major policy issue confronting Hanoi?how best to win the war in the South. Giap, Dong and Le Duan support the current policy: intensive guerrilla activity interspersed with conventional, regular-force battles or "high points," all aimed at inflicting a decisive victory in the tradition of Dienbienphu. Truong Chinh, clearly influenced by the theories of Mao Tse-tung, favors dropping to a lower level of warfare. He argues that such protracted conflict would eventually exhaust...
...opted for temporary disengagement in the belief that a lull in the fighting will spur quicker U.S. withdrawal from South Viet Nam. Once large numbers of U.S. troops have pulled out, the Communists could resume guerrilla warfare with relatively bright hopes of success. Hanoi's chief ideologue, Truong Chinh, has been advocating that plan for a long time. - It is Hanoi's intention to lure the allies into reducing patrols and easing general pressure, thus facilitating an unhindered Communist buildup that would culminate in another large offensive such as the 1968 Tet attack that irreparably disillusioned the American...
...Nguyen Giap are members, is made up of hard-liners who brush aside domestic considerations. They hold that the war can be won by pressing on with the present strategy of employing both conventional and guerrilla forces in the South. A second group led by Politburo Member Truong Chinh, so the analysis goes, favors a return to guerrilla warfare in the South in an effort to outlast the U.S. and the South Vietnamese while conserving the North's own manpower and other resources. The third, and so far least influential group, whose spokesman is Foreign Minister Nguyen Duy Trinh...
...strong executive rather than government by parliament; they want a constitution that guarantees freedom from arbitrary arrest and freedom of speech; all members are vehemently nationalist and antiCommunist. Some of the more prominent facces: >Dr. Dang Van Sung, 51, a physician turned editor of Saigon's influential daily Chinh Luan ("The Right Opinion"), who is popular among intellectuals and the Hoa Hao, and could probably be elected assembly chairman if he chose. "He may turn out to be the strong minority opposition leader," says one observer...