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...Rama Lama Ding Dong" was much more popular than the automobile for which the group was named. Which group sang this song...
...every account of hardship, there is an exhortation to greater work and sacrifice. Nowhere has there appeared an official suggestion that Hanoi should alleviate the suffering by calling a halt to the fighting. The power to make that decision rests with the triumvirate that succeeded Ho-Premier Pham Van Dong, Party Secretary Le Duan and Assembly Chairman Truong Chinh. Analysts in the South and elsewhere are convinced that Truong now ranks first among equals. Those with hopes of a quick end to the war can hardly take comfort from the fact that his name translates as "Long March...
...today's rock songs lack more than anything else is catchy backup, and "Remember Then" makes that failing obvious. There's a surging "Re-mem-mem. re-mem-mem-member" in a pleasing bass voice at the outset. Later, the repetitions of "oop shoop, shang a lang a ding dong" nicely complement that basic line...
Delta Doubts. In another place, Vietnamization remains a promising but untried theory. As part of the Dong Tien (literally, Progress Together) program, ARVN's 5th infantry division has been undergoing intensive training by the U.S.'s 1st Infantry Division. When the Big Red One departs, probably under President Nixon's third round of withdrawals, scheduled to be completed by April 15, the Vietnamese will assume responsibility for guarding the critical northern approaches to Saigon...
Another inhibiting factor is that Thieu is becoming a more effective President. In his elation over Nixon's speech, Thieu last week journeyed into the countryside for the second time in five days. In Lam Dong province, north of Saigon, he made a presentation of land titles to two of 1,737 peasants being given acres under his accelerated land-reform program. At a stopover in the mountain resort of Dalat, he hosted a lamb barbecue for a group of foreign diplomats and journalists...