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...first time since Dien Bien Phu, the armies of North Vietnam have moved en masse against a Western power intent on ruling in their country. The current offensive in Vietnam is not politically senseless, nor is it an exercise in random brutality; it is firmly rooted in the political torment and human anguish that have been created by American policy. And we can only hope that the Americans and their South Vietnamese mercenaries will suffer the same fate as did the French...
Viewing the campsite, Washington Post columnist Nicholas Von Hoffman said, "It kind of looks like Dien Bien...
There are major political implications to the heroin problem. One of Saigon's leading opposition papers, the Tin Dien, asked sarcastically: "Who wants to kill this regime? The rulers or the Communists?" The fact that some of Thieu's supporters are implicated in the heroin trade does not mean that the government either condones or encourages the illegal trafficking. Nonetheless, the paper pointed out that if Thieu failed to cope with the heroin scandal, it would be a major defeat for his regime. There is also considerable speculation that Hanoi may be facilitating the flow of cheap heroin...
...essay which sparked the government move against Doi Dien is a three-part series entitled "25 Years of the August Revolution: Building Socialism in North Vietnam." Father Can noted in an interview that the first part, 'Ho Chi Minh's government's war to win independence from the French," was omitted from the government's indictment...
...Vietnamese press office says the content of the articles and of Don Dien generally have the character of "promoting Communist North Vietnam and creating the illusion that only communism is good...