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With ringing, self-congratulatory toasts, Ho Chi Minh's successor, Secretary-General Le Duan, 68, last week ended the first Congress of the Vietnamese Communist Party since 1960-and the first held in a unified Viet Nam. The six-day meeting in some respects resembled an overblown victory banquet. The 1,008 cadres and 24 fraternal foreign delegations-led by the Soviet Central Committee's Mikhail Suslov-endured no fewer than 55 speeches, including an eight-hour stem-winder by Le Duan. The theme of the Congress-Thong Nhat (national reunification)-was symbolized by the arrival of delegates...
...first time, possibly around May 19, it will choose a figurehead President for the unified country, plus a Premier and a Cabinet. Most likely choice as Premier is North Viet Nam's Premier Pham Van Dong. Others who will probably hold top leadership posts include Le Duan, First Secretary of the Lao Dong, and Mrs. Nguyen Thi Binh, who was chief negotiator for the Viet Cong in Paris...
...address, delivered in the Kremlin's Palace of Congresses, lasted more than five hours. Listening intently were some 5,000 Soviet delegates and hundreds of foreign guests, including Cuba's Fidel Castro (who sported the only full beard in the hall), North Viet Nam's Le Duan, Italy's Communist Party Boss Enrico Berlinguer and his Portuguese counterpart, Alvaro Cunhal. Brezhnev's speech seemed carefully crafted to convey a double message. While it extolled the benefits of détente-of which Brezhnev has been Moscow's principal architect-it implied that the Soviets...
...bombing and mining policy being given a welcome in the capital of what had so recently been a bitter enemy. Kissinger was making his first visit to Hanoi at the invitation of his Paris antagonist, Le Due Tho. In three days of intensive talks, he was to meet Le Duan, the Communist Party leader, and Premier Pham Van Dong. The North Vietnamese had sought this visit with some urgency, possibly as a means of worrying South Viet Nam's President Nguyen Van Thieu. Hanoi can also use any rapprochement with Washington to give it more flexibility in dealing with...
...became a founding member of the Indochinese Communist Party. By 1945 he had been appointed to the Central Committee, and in 1949 was sent to South Viet Nam as the second man in charge of reorganizing Communist political and military activities. His superior was Le Duan, now the head of the party. Of the two, Tho took the harder line on the fight for the South, arguing for an unremitting struggle. Recalled home after the Geneva accords of 1954, Tho continued to supervise guerrilla actions in the South while building his own reputation as one of the best organizational minds...