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...been born in the U.S. instead of in Ha Dong province, on the outskirts of Hanoi, Xuan Thuy, 55, most probably would have become a corporate executive-if never a board chairman. As a youthful agitator and underground journalist and later as a diplomat, jowly Xuan Thuy (pronounced Swan Twee) earned the trust of Viet Nam's Communist chieftains. Even during a three-year eclipse from public view before last month when he was named minister without portfolio to head Hanoi's negotiating team, Thuy retained a resonant string of official titles, notably as a member...
...visitors report that the most visibly active man in Hanoi these days is Premier Pham Van Dong, 60, who runs North Viet Nam on a day-to-day basis for Ho Chi Minh. Neither Dong nor Ho seems likely to relax many of the arrangements necessitated by the bombing. They cannot, of course, be certain that the raids will not resume...
...Dinner. Apart from that, and Hanoi's natural decision to ban him from military areas, Collingwood was given free access to the country and to its leaders. He talked for more than an hour with Premier Pham Van Dong "who's really running the country," and with the Foreign Minister and a colonel on General Giap's staff. They were, he says, forthright and "very courteous," except for their ritual charges of genocide and their use of propaganda phraseology. On his last night, North Vietnamese officials laid on a banquet of "a number of dishes...
...troops wiped out a small U.S.-South Vietnamese camp only six miles from Danang, but U.S. troopers, with the aid of air and artillery, caught and killed 129 of the Communists south of the city. U.S. Marine and ARVN troopers, sweeping northeast of the DMZ Marine supply base of Dong Ha, found a battalion of the enemy and killed 164. The Communists kept up their deadly tattoo of rocket and mortar attacks on allied bases and towns, inflicting "moderate" damage on the Danang airstrip in one attack and for the first time dropping shells into the center of Cam Ranh...
Decentralization, then, aims also at promoting an even cultural mix--creating a truly classless society. On this score, it seems to have gotten mixed results. In May, Pham Van Dong spoke earnestly with an Italian physicist about the "cultural" benefits which the war was bringing peasants, but his insistence seemed to hid frustration, and the mere mention of the problem establishes its existence...