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...some overrun hamlets, the Communists are imposing a tax of two-thirds on this year's rice crop-up from. 50% a year ago, a trend that apparently indicates growing confidence. "They are trying to reoccupy villages and hamlets where they used to work," says Colonel Duong Hieu Nghia, the Vinh Long province chief. "They are preparing for a ceasefire. They want to be in place if it comes, and ready if it does...
...GENERAL DUONG VAN MINH, 56, a former chief of state. Despite his reputation as a poor administrator, "Big Minn," a Buddhist, is widely admired for his integrity. Although he withdrew from last year's presidential election charging that the U.S. had allowed it to be rigged in Thieu's favor, Minh may now be more willing to challenge Thieu's rule. Recently, he has been circulating a petition demanding that the President resign because of the failure of his leadership...
...send you to the cemetery of Ham Duong...
...successes of pacification can be seen in quite striking fashion. Voter turnout in the 1967 presidential election as compared with the 1966 consituent assembly election increased by 50 percent in Binh Dinh province, 23 percent in Phu Yen, 22 percent in Hau Nghia and 20 percent in Binh Duong. These changes were undoubtedly the result of the strong pacification efforts made in those provinces...
...turnout that it thought appropriate. Thieu's nearly total control of the situation was evident when the frustrated and factious anti-government forces met last week to try to organize a broadly based opposition. They managed only to form a loose committee and named as its chairman General Duong Van ("Big") Minh, who dropped out of the presidential election last month charging that the vote was rigged in advance. Minh did not even bother to attend last week's meeting...