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Since then, said the Vice President, the U.S. has had contact with the Ho Chi Minh regime-"through third parties" and at times "directly." Typical of Hanoi's response was a statement last week by Truong Chinh, a top party official, denouncing U.S. peace overtures as a "crafty trick...
Just how the government uncovered the plot was purposely left unclear, but an army captain was gunned down "trying to escape," and more than 40 "dissidents" were arrested, most of them Catholic. Among them, according to one report: Colonel Trang Van Chinh, chief of military security. Still at large, however, were General Lam Van Phat and Colonel Pham Ngoc Thao, ringleaders of the February attempt, who are under sentence of death following trial in absentia...
...standing for re-election to the Assembly, rolled up a Marxist-style 99.92% majority. Finishing close behind him were two top functionaries of North Viet Nam's Communist movement, known as Lao Dong, or Workers'Party: First Secretary Le Duan, who won 99.83% and Politburo Member Truong Chinh with 99.81%. Duan, 57, and Chinh, 55, are leaders of the party's pro-Peking wing, and their margins are a measure of the growing challenge by the Peking men to Uncle...
...botched situation is largely the work of a small, fierce-eyed man with a bulging forehead named Truong Chinh-called "Little Uncle" in recognition of his role as heir apparent to "Great Uncle" Ho Chi Minh. Back in 1951 Truong Chinh was named secretary-general of the Lao Dong (Communist) Party, and launched a ferocious campaign of land reform. His slogan: "Better kill ten innocent people than let one enemy escape." Son of a landlord mandarin himself, Truong let his own parents die at the hands of his land reformers, declaring coldly: "The people's court was right...
Conducted by Party Boss Truong Chinh, the North Vietnamese land reform was a bloody business in which a whole uniformed army of reformers had marched into peasant areas, declared martial law, stripped tiny landholders of their farms, and shipped thousands off to prison or death indiscriminately. When its harvest turned out to be only unrest and barren rice fields, Dictator Ho Chi Minh tried to mend the error by firing Party Boss Truong and circulating a letter which promised drastic liberalization of his regime. Last week, at the sprawling seaport town of Tourane, a boatload of refugees from the Communist...